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Truth In Lies: Lizzie Borden I
Truth In Lies: Lizzie Borden Iby MichaelDoyleThe worst kind of monsterHides just beneath the norm.To the untrained eye,It’s a very human form.They feel benign and harmless,Even if, just a bit charmless.Until the curtain pulls backAnd all hope turns to sheer … Continue reading
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Tagged Human Form, Lies, Lizzy Borden, Monster, Norm, Poetry and Poem, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Fix Your Eyes Forward On What You Can Do, Not Back On What You Cannot Change
“Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.” – Tom Clancy
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Tagged Change, Eyes, Fix, Forward, Thought For the Day;, Tom Clancy
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First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter and Lose Our Freedoms, It Will Be Because We Destroyed Ourselves
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
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Tagged Abraham Liincoln, America, Destruction, Falter, First Principles:, Freedom, Lost, Outside
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Friendships Adulting
Friendships Adultingby Michael DoyleMoving to the next new neighborhood.Among the things best to be understood,Is that while friendship preserve,A new way of life has a lot to maybe fear.Each region has it’s own peculiar wayAnd there are things we learn … Continue reading
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Tagged Adulting, Fear, Friendship, Get Along, Learn, Life, Moving, Neighborhood, Peculiar Way, Poetry and Poems, Preserve, Region, Understood
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Thought For the Day: Leave Every Place You Go, Everything You Touch, A Little Better For Your Having Been There
“Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.” – Julie Andrews
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Tagged Evrery Place, Julie Andrews, Leave, Little Better, Thought For the Day, Touch
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First Principles: I Have One Life and One Chance To Make It Count For Something…For As Long As I Can With Whatever I Have To Try To Make A Difference
“I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try … Continue reading
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Tagged Count For Something, Difference, Faith, First Principles, Jimmy Carter, One Chance, One Life
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Thought For the Day: They Call Themselves Revolutionaries But They Want To Make the Government Omnipotent
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. … Continue reading
First Principles: The Storm of Frenzy and Faction Must Inevitably Dash Itself In Vain Against the Unshaken Rock of the Constitution
“The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution.” – James Buchanan
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Tagged Constitution, Dash, Faction, First Principles, Frenzy, James Buchanan, Rock, Storm, Vain
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To Get Back Up Again
To Get Back Up Againby Michael DoyleWhether it was noblerIn word or in deed,Never knowing if I’d get olderFrom my worries, I was freed.One moment in its delay,It could turn my world upside downAnd nothing I could sayWould turn around … Continue reading
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Tagged Deed, Focus, Free, Get Back Up, Hurt, Moment, Noble, Older, Poetry and Poems, Say, Truth, Uncertain, Unhealthy, Word, World, Worry
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Thought For the Day: Little Science Takes You Away From God, But More of It Takes You To Him
“Little science takes you away from God, but more of it takes you to Him.: – Louis Pasteur
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Tagged Away, God, Little, Louis Pasteur, More, Science, Thought For the Day
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