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Thought For the Day: The Problem In Our Country Isn’t With Books Being Banned, But With People No Longer Reading
“The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. … You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” – Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (22 … Continue reading
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Tagged Banned, Books, Country, Culture, Destroy, No Longer Reading, People, Problem, Ray Bradbury, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Human Nature Itself Is Evermore An Advocate For Liberty
“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the ‘latent spark’… If … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocate, Differences, First Principles, Friends of Mankind, Human Nature, John Adams, Latent Spark, Liberty, Love of Truth, Novanglus, Principle, Virtue
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Called To Freedom
Called To Freedomby Michael DoyleStanding firm on Sunday morningLiving life as if a warningDoing it as I can to my very bestFasting and testifying as I confessIt grew toward a borderline resentmentUntil I discovered what brought contentmentCalled to freedom to … Continue reading
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Tagged Attraction, Best, Call, Confess, Contentment, Crucify the Flesh, Dismiss, Fatal Distraction, Freedom, Fruit of the Spirit, God's Salvation, Hides Within, Idolatry, Law, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Repentance, Resentment, Serve, Sin Nature, Sincere, Sunday Morniing, Troublemaker, Warning, Wrong
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First Principles: Liberty Is A Word Which, According As It Is Used, Comprehends The Most Good and the Most Evil of Any In the World. Justly Understood It Is Sacred
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Landholder, Appropriate, Choice, Comprehend, Confusion, Divine Adoration, Evil, First Principles, Jealousy, Liberty, Mean, Necessary Government, Oliver Ellsworth, Power, Promote Good, Rulers, Sacred, Society, Understood
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Thought For the Day: Remember, Compassion Is Not A Sign of Weakness
“If someone behaves negatively towards you, it helps to remember that he or she is a human being like you and to distinguish between an action and the person who does it. If counter measures are needed to prevent someone … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Action, Agitated Mind, Anger, Brain, Calm, Compassion, Counter Measures, Dalai Lama, Distinguish, Function, Harm, Human Being, Negative, Not, Person, Prevent, Remember, Sign, Someone, Thought For the Day, Weakness
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With A Kiss To the Heart
With A Kiss To the Heartby Michael DoyleWith a kiss to the heartMy love woke with a startThinking on the words saidAnd waking parts thought deadSpeaking ’til early mornMy soul became a smile wornUntil it reaches my faceFinding what it … Continue reading
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Tagged Coffee, Compose, Days, Dream n, Early Morn, Face, Forgot, Form, Gone, Halo, Heart, Heaven, Hello, Hopeful, Kiss, Look Away, Man, My Life's Song, My Love, Passion, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Pull Away, Replace, Rewarm, Say, Slip By, Smile, Soul, Speaking, Start, Stay, Thinking, Thought, Too Long, Try, Wait, Words
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Compliment That Was Ever Paid Me Was When One Asked Me What I Thought, and Attended To My Answer
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” – Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
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Tagged Answer, Ask, Attended, Compliment, Henry David Thoreau, Paid, Thought, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few, and Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it … Continue reading
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Tagged Appellation, Confdence, Courteous, Few, First Principles, George Washington, Intimate, Plant, Shocks of Adversity, Slow Growth, True Friendship, Well Tried
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First Principles: To Preserve Liberty, It Is Essential That the Whole Body of the People Always Possess Arms, and Be Taught Alike, Especially When Young, How To Use Them
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” – Federal Farmer (1787)
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Tagged Essential, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Liberty, Possess Arms, Preserve, Richard Henry Lee, Taught, The People, Use, Whole Body, Young
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Thought For the Day: Errors Like Straws Upon the Surface Flow; Who Would Search For Pearls Must Dive Below
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow / Who would search for pearls must dive below.” -John Dryden, poet and dramatist (19 Aug 1631-1700)
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