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This Is the Baseline
This Is the Baselineby Michael DoyleThis This is the baselineMissed The punchline that was a signThat That showed us the worldAs Every dream was found fetal and curledMost stages of consciousnessAre degrees of insanityMirrored images of pretentiousnessHeld to the light … Continue reading
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First Principles: Human Government Is More Or Less Perfect As It Approaches Nearer Or Diverges Farther From the Imitation of This Perfect Plan of Divine and Moral Government
“Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” – John Adams, 1770
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Tagged Approach, Diverge, Divine, First Principles, Government, Human Government, Imitation, John Adams, Moral, Perfect, Perfect Plan
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Astonishes Men So Much As Common Sense and Plain Dealing
“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882
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Thought For the Day: Few Are the Giants of the Soul Who Actually Feel That the Human Race Is Their Family Circle
“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.” -Freya Stark, explorer and writer (1893-1993)
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Tagged Family Circle, Feel, Few, Freya Stark, Giants, Human Race, Soul, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important of Republican Virtues, and Public Debt As the Greatest of Dangers To Be Feared
“I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. … Taxation follows that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.”– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to … Continue reading
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Tagged Danger, Economy, Fear, First Principles, Public Debt, Republican Virtues, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: The Cause of America Is In A Great Measure the Cause of All Mankind
“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” – Thomas Paine (1776)
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Tagged America, Cause, Common Sense, First Principles, Great Measure, Mankind, Thomas Paine
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Thought For the Day: A Profound Unmitigated Loneliness Is the Only Truth of Life
“A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.” – R.K. Narayan, novelist (10 Oct 1906-2001)
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Tagged Apart, Arrest, Avoid, Battle, Detach, False, Hurt, Law of Life, Loneliness, Moment, Operation, Profound, R.K. Narayan, Recognize, Thought For the Day, Together, Truth of Life, Unmitigated, Womb
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First Principles: Wherever the Real Power In A Government Lies, There Is the Danger of Oppression
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Danger, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Oppession, Real Power
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Thought For the Day: From Everything That Man Erects and Builds In His Urge For Living, Nothing In My Eyes Is Better and More Valuable Than Bridges
“From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living, nothing in my eyes is better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Bridges, Build, Crossing, Durable, Erect, Everything, Eyes, Ivo Andric, Living, Thought For the Day, Urge
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Eudaimonia
Eudaimoniaby Michael DoyleAs a matter of virtue and philosophical inquiryAristotle unveiled many a treasured mysterySetting eudaimonia as the telos of human lifeTranslated toward peace and against strifeInvestigations into the dream of pure reasonTurning the colors of each passing seasonThe functionality … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Life, Aristotle, Believe, Busily Being, Colors, Complicated, Conceive, Conscience, Dealt, Dedicated, Deep Meaning, Detail, Discern, Dream, Dreams, End In Itself, Ethical Aims, Eudaimonia, Felt, Fleeting, Flourishing, Four Causes, Functionality, Gist, Grace, Greeting, Grown, Happiness, Honor, Human Bengs, Human Life, Investigation, Knowledge, Learn, Least Regret, Life Well Lived, Live Well, Lyceum, Means To the Ends, Measured In Moments, Measured In Reasons, Momentary Joy, Museum, Mystery, Nourish, Pass, Passing of Years, Passing Season, Path Forward, Peace, Philosophical Inquiry, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Processes, Pure Reason, Right Conditions, Science, Self-Contained, Shelf, Spirtuality, Streets, Strife, Student, Tears, Telos, Temporary, Translated, Treasure, Truth, Veracity, Virtue, Walking Lectures, Window's Ledge, Wisdom
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