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Trees Are Overrated
Trees Are Overrated by Michael DoyleSpeaking of paradigms outdatedIt turns out trees are overratedThis thought comes I am knee-deepIn a prairie’s secrets to keepIn the verdant landscape, songbirds singProviding a soundtrack to the blessed thingsDancing blue granma and sand dropseedTrace … Continue reading
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Tagged Aboreal, Decline, Forest Floor, Grass People, Homo Sapiens, Knee-Deep, Outdated, Overrated, Paradigms, Poetry and Poems, Prairie, Prairie Dogs, Preserve, Protection, Savanna, Secret, Shoots, Sign, Soil, Songbirds, Soundtrack, Steeple, Toil, Trees, Tug-of-War, Tyranny, Velds
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Thought For the Day: Among Other Causes of Misfortune Which Your Not Being Armed Brings Upon You, It Makes You Despised
“Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.” – Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
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Tagged Armed, Bring, Causes, Despise, First Principles, Misfortune, Niccolo Machiavelli
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society. It Ever Has Been and Ever Will Be Pursued Until It Is Obtained
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged End of Civil Society, End of Government, First Pricniples, James Madison, Justice, Liberty, Lost, Pursue, Pursuit, Will Not Obtain
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Living At Our Recall
Living At Our Recallby Michael DoyleAll around the world of praiseThe hands of glory lift and raiseSouls filled with challenges metHave no time or need for regretServing our part in the gloryDoing our best to live by the storyIn looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Challenges, Glory, Hands, Jesus, Journey, Living, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Recall, Souls, Story
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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Being Susceptible of Very Different Glosses, Beget In the Mind A Distrust of Itself
“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Contagious, Distrust, First Principles, Gloss, James Madison, Mind, Nothing, Opinion, Questions, Susceptible
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Thought For the Day: Nobody Has Ever Measured, Not Even Poets, How Much the Human Heart Can Hold
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.” -Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist (24 Jul 1900-1948)
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Tagged Hold, Human Heart, Measure, Much, Nobody, Poets, Thought For the Day, Zelda Fitzgerald
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Thought For the Day: Words, When Written, Crystallize History; Their Very Structure Gives Permanence To the Unchangeable Past
“Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past.” – Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)
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Tagged Francis Bacon, History, Permanence, Structure, Thought For the Day, Unchangeable Past, Words, Written
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First Principles: We Ought To Consider What Is the End of Government Before We Determine Which Is the Best Form
“We ought to consider what is the end of government before we determine which is the best form. Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Form, Consider, Determine, End of Government, First Principles, John Adams, Thoughts On Government
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What It Takes To Be A New Yorker
What It Takes To Be A New Yorkerby Michael DoyleIt used to be that all it took was a remembranceOf what used to be and now is turned into encumbranceSummoning a piece of the city that used to existWhen what … Continue reading
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Tagged Amnesia, Asps, Battle, Cynicism, Dawn, Encumbrance, Epiphany, Exist, Fate, Final End Date, Grief, Heartbreak, Living Legacy, Memory, Mourning, New Yorker, New Yorkers, Pandemic, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Remembrance, Skyline, Street, Takes, Tomorrow, Twin Towers, Warning, Whispers
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First Principles: We Lay It Down As A Fundamental, That Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; That, Without This, They Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct, Founded In Force, and Not In Conscience
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience” – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on … Continue reading
