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First Principles: The Vine That Has Grown Old On An Old Tree Falls With the Ruin of That Tree and Through That Bad Companionship Must Perish With It
“The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree and through that bad companionship must perish with it.” – Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
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Tagged Bad Companionship, First Principles, Grown, Leonardo da Vinci, Old, Perish, Ruin, Tree, Vine
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Thought For the Day: Your Eyes Saw My Substance, Being Yet Unformed. And In Your Book They All Are Written, the Days Fashioned For Me
“Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.” – Psalm 139:16
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Tagged Days, None, Psalm 139:16, Substance, Thought For the Day, Unformed, Written, Your Eyes
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First Principles: Nothing Is More Essential To the Establishment of Manners In State Than All Persons Employed In Places of Power and Trust Must Be Men of Unexceptional Characters
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775
Blind Spots
Blind Spotsby Michael Doyle”What’s my fault” is the starting pointIt is the starting point within meIs it self-centeredness that speaks to pointThat my hurt feelings are more about meIt is the me stuff that raises the defensesAll the selfish desires … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Defense, Defenses, Disagreement, Distress, Growing Up, Hurting Feelings, Incompatibility, Inflexibility, Objective Standard, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pretenses, Self-Centeredness, Selfish Desires, Starting Point, What's My Fault?, Wounded Pride
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Thought For the Day: Never Give In, Except To Convictions of Honor and Good Sense
“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently … Continue reading
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Tagged Convictions, Enemy, Force, Good Sense, Great, Honor, Large, Never, Never Give In, Nothing, Overwhelming Might, Petty, Small, Thought For the Day, Winston Churchill, Yield
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First Principles: The Republican Is the Only Form of Government Which Is Not Eternally At Open Or Secret War With the Rights of Mankind
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” – Thomas Jefferson (1790)
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Tagged Eternal, First Principles, Form, Government, Mankind, Open, Republican, Rights, Secret, Thomas Jefferson, War
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Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealed
Reflections on Dorian Gray V: Immortality Revealedby Michael DoyleArt imitates life as life imitates artMasquerading in the wantonness of the heartIt’s a fearful discovery of the monster withinThat while we don’t understand, causes us to sinActing in the the brazen … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Addiction, Art, Artist, Beautiful, Best Promises, Blame, Dance, Dare, Darkness, Depravity, Die, Discovery, Dorian Gray, Doubt, Dream, Duality, Enthralled, Evil, Eye, Eyes, Fatal, Fell, Gift, God, Heart, Hope, Idols, Ignore, Imagine, Immortality, Impulse, Impurity, Intended, Lechery, Life, Lost, Masquerade, Medication, Monster, Monsters, More, Naked, Painting, Poetry and Poems, Premeditation, Reflections, Repulse, Sacrifice, Scars, Scream, Sin, Slippery Slope, Stars, Tell Tale Signs, Temptation, The World, Transform, Treachery, Ugliness, Understand, Wantonness, Whim, Wickedness, Wonderful
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Thought For the Day: Colin’s Legacy…Is the People Who He Helped…Devote Their Lives To Forming A More Perfect Union
“[Colin] Colin was a man of integrity. He was deeply principled, shaped by bedrock beliefs that guided him throughout his life. … Colin loved soldiers and always held them to the highest standards. Yet he also took time to understand … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieve, Affirmation, America's Possibilities, Bedrock Beliefs, Colin Powell, Comfort, Condoleeza Rice, Deeply Principled, Devote, Encourage, Form, Help, Highest Standards, Inspire, Integrity, Legacy, Life, Lives, More Perfect Union, Opportunities, Personal and Professional, Struggle, Thought For the Day, U.S. Military
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek the Truth and Pursue It Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)
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Tagged First Principles, George Washington, One, Pursue, Seek, Steady, Straight Course, Truth
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