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Thought For the Day: The Price of Freedom of Religion Or of Speech Or of the Press Is That We Must Put Up With, and Even Pay For, A Good Deal of Rubbish
“The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.” – Robert H. Jackson, US Supreme Court justice (13 Feb 1892-1954)
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Tagged Freedom of Religion, Justice Robert H. Jackson, Pay For, Press, Price, Put Up With, Rubbish, Speech, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: I Hate Deception, Even Where the Imagination Only Is Concerned
“I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.” – George Washington
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Tagged Concerned, Deception, Even, First Principles, George Washington, Hate, Imagination
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Thought For the Day: If I Cannot Do Great Things, I Can Do Small Things In A Great Way
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thought For the Day: Only In Washington, DC Do People Seem To Think That Spending Trillions More of Taxpayers’ Money Will Cure Our Problems, Let Alone Inflation
“For months, I have been ringing the alarm bell about inflation. Once again, we are witnessing that the threat of inflation is real. There is not a corner of this nation where hard-working families are able to escape the noticeable … Continue reading
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Tagged Cure, Inflation, Only, Problems, Senator Joe Manchin, Spend, Taxpayers' Money, Think, Thought For the Day, Trillions, Washington D.C.
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First Principles: I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good, Become Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale, 1776
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Tagged Every Kind of Service, Exigencies, First Principles, Honorable, Imperious, My Country, Nathan Hale, Necessary, Public Good, Service, Useful, Wish
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In A Hermitage of Petrified Words
In A Hermitage of Petrified Wordsby Michael DoyleLike a forest well petrifiedBy minerals filling in for lifeA poet thinks in his hermitageDreaming about things to study onThere’s an abandonment of conjunctionWhen like Chomsky, language ceases to functionWe drift like lyrics … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Attack, Bliss, Bygone Eras, Certainty, Chomsky, Discriminate, Dreaming, Emblems, Emptiness, Existence, Fate, Function, Gambit, Hermitage, History, Immutable Stillness, Krazy Glue, Language, Linguistic, Lyrics, Meaning, Minerals, Modern Times, Perfection, Perpretual, Petrified, Petrified Forests, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politically Aggressive, Resistance, Sterile, Study, Survivor, Truth of Time, Understanding, Verbs, Webster, Words
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First Principles: If Virtue and Knowledge Are Diffused Among the People, The Will Never Be Enslaved. This Will Be Their Great Security
“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.” – Samuel Adams (1779)
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Tagged Diffused, Enslaved, First Principles, Knowledge, Samuel Adams, Security, The People, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: Beauty Comes In All Shapes and Sizes. Small, Large, Circle, Square, Thin Crust, Thick Crust, Stuffed Crust, Extra Toppings
“Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Small, large, circle, square, thin crust, thick crust, stuffed crust, extra toppings.” – Anonymous
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Tagged All Shapes, Anonymous, Beauty, Circle, Extra Toppings, Happy National Pizza Day, Large, Sizes, Small, Square, Stuffed Crust, Thick Crust, Thin Crust, Thought For the Day
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A Penitent’s Tale Begins
A Penitent’s Tale Beginsby Michael DoyleWhat do we do then when we awakeTo find our life has been a mistakeWhat then is life if we do not growExamined questions offer answers yet to knowThere is greatness in the sum of … Continue reading
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Tagged Awake, Begin, Bible, Draw, Examined Questions, Exile, God, Grow, Jerusalem, Jewish Insurgency, Know, Legacy, Lessons, Lore, Mistake, Penitent, Poetry and Poems, Rabbis, Read, Righteous, Speak, Tale, True, Wailing Wall, World's Sin, Yiddish
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