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The Problem With Social Justice
The Problem With Social Justiceby Michael DoyleLook at this street full of foolsWho believe that they are heaven sentThey act just like a bunch of toolsYelling at others that they need to repentEach thinking themselves true activistsUrging the rest of … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Hate, Active Listening, Activists, Algorithms, All Life Is Still Sacred, Amphetamines, Apostacy, Ashes, Battle Lines, Better World, Catechism, Choice, Church of Social Justice, Collective Effervescence, Community, Countenance, Creatures of Habit, Crush, Dagnabbit, Differences in Opinion, Different Views, Dissent, Each Soul, Echo Chambers, Exclude, Expression, Fire and Brimstone Language, Fools, Frame, Freedom and Liberty, Gentle, Good Versus Evil, Grand Insight, Hate, Heart and Mind, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent, Lessons, Masses, Memes, Merit, Norm, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Political Idols, Politics, Preach, Priestly Classes, Problem, Reactivists, Real Equity, Repent, Reverence, Shame, Sides, Silence, Social Justice, Soul, Spent, Street, Tolerance, Tools, True Freedom, Voices
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Thought For the Day: America’s Abundance Was Created Not By Public Sacrifices To ‘the Common Good’, But By the Productive Genius of Free Men
“America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
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Tagged Abundance, America, Ayn Rand, Better Jobs, Cheaper Goods, Common Good, Every Step, Free Men, Genius, Higher Wages, Industrialization, Invent, Machine, Moving Forward, Not Suffering, People, Personal Interests, Private Fortunes, Productive, Profiting, Public Sacrifice, Scientific Discovery, Starve, Technological Advance, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: A Government Ought To Contain In Itself Every Power Requisite To the Full Accomplishment of the Objects Committed To Its Care
“A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Care, Contain, Control, Every Power, First Principles, Free, Full Accomplishment, Government, Objects, Public Good, Requisite, Responsible, The People, Trusts
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Hiding From Sins
Hiding From Sinsby Michael DoyleAcross a desert filled with mortalityA lonely creature seeks its immortalityAbove the canyon and ridden on the ridgeDeath itself holds its own bridgeQuestions run vast in seeking realityMonsters of a kind collide eventuallyIn an attempt to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridge, Canyon, Death, Desert, Eventually, Hiding, Immortality, Lonely Creature, Mortality, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Reality, Ridge, Sins
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First Principles: It Is Religion and Morality Alone Which Can Establish the Principles Upon Which Freedom Can Securely Stand
“It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.” – John Adams
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Tagged Alone, Establish, First Principles, Freedom, John Adams, Morality, Principles, Religion, Stand
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Thought For the Day: I Speak Two Languages, Body and English
“I speak two languages, Body and English.” – Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (17 Aug 1893-1980)
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Tagged Body, English, Langauge, Mae West, Speak, Thought For the Day, Two
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First Principles: If Men Are So Wicked With Religion, What Would They Be Without It?
“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” –Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Men, Religion, Wicked, Without It?, Would
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Thought For the Day: A Person May Cause Evil To Others Not Only By His Actions But By His Inaction
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)
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Tagged Accountable, Actions, Case, Inaction, Injury, John Stuart Mill, Only, Others, Person, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: I Seem To Have Loved You In Numberless Forms, Numberless Distance, In Life After Life, In Age After Age, Forever
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless distance, in life after life, in age after age, forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore
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Tagged Age, Distance, Do Good, Door, Forever, Gate, Knock, Life, Love, Loves, Numberless Forms, Open, Rabindranath Tagore, Seem, Thought For the Day, You
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone That Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself.
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” —Thomas Jefferson (1781)
