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To Catch A Falling Star
To Catch A Falling Starby Michael DoyleSometimes I feelThis is not my worldI find myself searchingLooking for the doorThat will lead me awayFrom this wrong worldAnd to a place I belongFrom the ashes of yesterdayI feel as if I must … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Behind, Belong, Blaze, Catch, Counting Stars, Damage Done, Determination, Door, Endless Blessing, Escape, Fade, Falling Star, Feel, Flee, Know, Lead, Night, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Rain Down, Remember, Run, Search, Skies, Suffering, Sunset, Trace, World, Wrong World, Yesterday
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Thought For the Day: You Cannot Subsidize Irresponsibility and Expect People To Become More Responsible
“You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.” – Thomas Sowell
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Tagged Expect, Irresponsibility, People, Responsible, Subsidize, Thomas Sowell, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: We Know That Families and Churches, Not Government Officials, Know Best How To Create A Strong and Loving Community…We Don’t Worship Government. We Worship God.
“We know that families and churches, not government [officials], know best how to create a strong and loving community. … In America we don’t worship government. We worship God.” – Donald Trump
Thought For the Day: Now More Than Ever, We Need To Embrace the Family As the Central Unit of Our Society. Restoration of the Family Is At the Core of Restoring the American Dream
“Now more than ever, we need to embrace the family as the central unit of our society. Restoration of the family is at the core of restoring the American Dream for everyone.” – former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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Tagged American Dream, Central Unit, Core, Embrace, Family, Mike Pompeo, More Than Ever, Need, Restoration, Restore, Society, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Where There Is No Law, There Is No Liberty
“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.” – Benjamin Rush (1788)
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Tagged All, Benjamin Rush, Certain, Community, First Principles, Members, Name of Law, No Law, No Liberty, Nothing, Operation, Universal
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Troubled Thoughts In the Night
Troubled Thoughts In the Nightby Michael DoyleLife knows its bestSpoken like a new languageIt’s written in secret alphabetYou can feel its rising heatSomewhere in that middle passageWithout words it reveals its secretA divine messenger singsOn the wind like a ghost … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Best, Borrowing Troubles, Breath, Burn, Death, Death Stings, Discern, Divine Messenger, Doctors, Emotions, Feast, Ghost Song, Hope, Hopeless, Icy Claws, Immaculate Notions, Language, Life, Lonely Night, Middle Passage, Night, Notes, Passing, Patience, Poetry and Poems, Reveal, Rising Heat, Secret Alphabet, Sequence, Sky, Solomon, Stainless, Starless, Thoughts, Trouble, Troubled, Two, Whisper, Wind, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: You Won’t Get Gun Control By Disarming Law-Abiding Citizens
“You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. … There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizens, Criminals, Disarm, Fazed, Harm, Key, Law-Abiding, Lock, Lose, Nasty Truth, Personal Experience, Ronald Reagan, Thought For the Day, Thugs
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First Principles: There Can Be No Greater Error Than To Expect, or Calculate Upon Real Favors From Nation To Nation
“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Calculate, Cure, Discard, Error, Expect, Experience, Favor, First Principles, George Washington, Great, Illusion, Nation, Pride
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In the I-IV-VII
In the II IV VIIby Michael Doyle In the I IV VIII just might playMy way to blues heavenBut I wouldn’t want to really say. It’s just another moment in this dayTroubles found and troubles goneNo real matter to how … Continue reading
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Tagged Belongs, Blues, Blues Heaven, Chill, Circles, Crossroads, Crowd, Cry and Play, Curved, Day, Dig In Deep, Drawn, Etch, Every Day, Fall, Feeling, Find, Fogot, Found, Gone, Groove, Guitar, I-IV-VII, Incendiary, Living Life, Lost Mind, Loud, Memory, Mind, Moment, Night, Note, One Too Many, Play, Poetry and Poems, Question, Real Matter, Right, Room, Say, Sing, Sliding Tones, Slow Roll, Song, Soul, Sting, Strings, Tomorrow, Troubles, Tumbling Dice
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Thought For the Day: I Had the Blues Because I Had No Shoes Until Upon the Street, I Met A Man Who Had No Feet
“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.” – Denis Waitley
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Tagged Blues, Denis Waitley, Man, Met, No Feet, Shoes, Street, Thought For the Day
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