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Thought For the Day: We Must Do A Little Thinking Every Day and Not Pass Up the Front Page For the Sports Page As We Did Before. Vigilance Pays Interest and Compounds Into Peace
“Henceforward we must do a little civil thinking every day And not pass up the front page for the sports page as we did before. Vigilance pays interest and compounds into peace.” – Norman Corwin
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Tagged A Little Thinking, Compounds, Every Day, Front Page, Interest, Norman Corwin, Not Pass Up, Peace, Sports Page, Thought For the Day, Vigilance, We
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Fold
Foldby Michael DoyleThe gambler’s cards foldedAs variables at last decodedIn this digital age, it’s the human mindThat must last be decoded or left behindIn mankind’s bid at immortalityDespite the babbled towers of immoralityIn the worst of infernal questsTo put living … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Card, Decoded, Digital Age, Discern, Disguise, Fold, Free, Free Will, Freedom, Gambler, Glory, Heir, Human Mind, Illusions The Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah, Immorality, Immortality, Lack, Left Behind, Lend, Lesson, Liberty, Life, Living Forever, Mankiind, Misery, Mistake, Narrow Eyes, Old, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Recognize, Story, Suffering, Surmise, Survive, Test, Told, Towers, Transcendence, True Promises, Truth, Twinkle, Variables, Virtuosity, Will, Yore
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First Principles: Freedom of Speech Is A Principal Pillar of A Free Government: When This Support Is Taken Away, the Constitution of A Free Society Is Dissolved
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.”– Benjamin Franklin
Thought For the Day: Twitter Serves As the De Facto Public Town Square. Free Speech Is Essential To A Functioning Democracy.
“Twitter serves as the de facto public town square. Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.” – Elon Musk
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Tagged De Facto, Democracy, Elon Musk, Essential, Free Speech, Functioning, Thought For the Day, Town Square, Twitter
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It’s A Sunday Conversation
It’s A Sunday Conversationby Michael DoyleThere’s something to give attentionWe’re all living in the tensionWe are not here for entertainmentBut we are here for engagementFiltered in God’s holy perceptionStanding in worship, giving our receptionIt is not the how in which … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Across, Address, Amen, Anchored, Attention, Biblical Community, Blessed and Content, Blessings, Capability, Change, Church Life, Corrupt Soil, Create, Day-To-Day, Dream, Durability, Embrace, Engagement, Entertainment, Every Way, Evidence, Express, Fallacies, Filter, Fruit, God, God's Love, Godly Continuity, Grace, History, Labels, Legacy, Let It Be, Living, Love, Massive, Moment, Mystery, Passive, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prayer, Price, Proof, Reception, Right Intention, Righteousness, See, Serve, Shame, Sunday Conversation, Support, Tension, Toil, Unaffordable, Word, Word of God, Worship
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First Principles: The Present Constitution Is the Standard To Which We Are To Cling. Under Its Banners, Bona Fide Must We Combat Our Political Foes
“The present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes.” – Alexander Hamilton (1802)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, All Changes, Amendments, Banners, Bona Fide, Channel, Cling, Combat, Constitution, First Principles, Political Foes, Present, Reject, Standard
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Thought For the Day: Three Grand Essentials To Happiness In This Life Are Something To Do, Something To Love, and Something To Hope For
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison, writer (1672-1719)
The Importance of the Word
The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading
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Tagged Beginning, Being, Bond, Breath, Community, Complexity, Connect, Cousin, Crumble, Culture, Death, Define, Display, Dot-To-Dot, Elasticity, Find, Float Over, Flowing Tears, God, Grumble, Importance, Knowledge, Me, Meaning, Mumble, Nurture, Occurred, Odd, Past, Played, Poetry and Poems, Politely, Ponds, Quest, Refine, Roll of Years, Seal, Seek, Sense, Sleep, Slip, Sought, Sudden, Symbol, Table, the Word, Theories, Think, Thirst, Thought, Words, Words In Mind
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First Principles: So Long As the People Do Not Care To Exercise Their Freedom, Those Who Wish to Tyrannize Will Do So
“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and … Continue reading
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Tagged Active, Any Number of Gods, Ardent, Care, Devote, Exercise, First Principles, Freedom, Name, Religious, Shackles, Sleeping Men, The People, Tyrannize, Tyrants, Voltaire
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Thought For the Day: By Liberty, I Mean the Assurance That Every Man Shall Be Protected In Doing What He Believes His Duty Against the Influence of Authority and Majorities, Custom, and Opinion
“By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.” – Lord Acton (1834-1902)
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Tagged Assurance, Authority, Custom, Doing What He Believes, Duty, Every Man, Influence, Liberty, Lord Acton, Majorities, Opinion, Protected, Thought For the Day
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