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Lizzie Borden IV: Obscured Vanity
Lizzie Borden IV: Obscured Vanityby Michael DoyleTrue to the nature of her kind,It’s always another trick of the mind.Her ploy of seeded manipulationMade it a trigger pulled by devotion.Lizzie found her way to womanhoodMisunderstanding bad for good.The luck of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Lizzie Borden, Manipulation, Nature, Obscurity, Poetry and Poems, Vain
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Thought For the Day: A Society With Too Few Independent Thinkers Is Vulnerable To Control By Disturbed and Opportunistic Leaders
“A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Control, Independent Thinkers, John Dewey, Leader, Opporunistic, Society, Thought For the Day, Vulnerability
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First Principles: The Budget Should Be Balanced Not By More Taxes, But By Reduction of Follies
“The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.” – Herbert Hoover
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Tagged Balance, First Principles:, Folly, Herbert Hoover, Reduction, Taxes, The Budget
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Living Mystery
Living Mysteryby Michael DoyleI’ve led a life of scarsEarned under the summer’s stars.All around me, I’ve seen God move,And I’ve struggled to improve.I was just another long-haired boyLifting my voice with anger and joy.Overwhelmed by the moving score,I fought for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bold, Crash, Days, God, Improvement, Living Mystery, Long-Haired Boy, Older, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Scar, Seen, Summer's Stars, Voice
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Thought For the Day: We Need Men With Moral Courage To Speak and Write Their Real Thoughts, and To Stand By Their Convictions, Even To the Very Death
“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
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Tagged Conviction, Death, Mankind, Moral Courage, Real Thoughts, Robert Green Ingersoll, Speak, Thought For the Day, Write
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First Principles: But Stephen, Full of the Holy Spirit, Looked Up To Heaven and Saw the Glory of God, and Jesus Standing At the Right Hand of God
But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. – Acts 7:55 NIV
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Tagged Acts 7:55 NIV, First Pinciples, Glory of God, God, Heaven, Holly Spirit, Jesus, Right Hand, Stephen
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Thought For the Day: God Is A Specialist At Making Something Useful and Beautiful Out of Something Broken and Confused
“God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.’ – Charles R. Swindoll
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Tagged Beautiful, Broken, Charles R. Swindoll, Confused, God, Specialist, Thought For the Day, Useful
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First Principles: Well, There Doesn’t Seem Anything Else For An Ex-President To Do But To Go Into the Country and Raise Big Pumpkins
“Well, there doesn’t seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.” – Cheater A. Arthur
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Tagged Chester A. Arthur, Country, Ex-President, First Priiciples, Pumpkins, Raise
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A Fill of Years
A Fill of Yearsby Michael DoyleWe filled our lives with all of these years,Faking smiles through too many tears.Those that come after have their game.We each had one, but who is there to blame?The last thing we need is endless … Continue reading
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Tagged Blame, Bone, Cleaved Meat, Fill, Game, Lives, Poetry and Poems, Score, Smile, Soul, Tears, Years
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Thought For the Day: The Master of the Art In Living…Pursues His Vision of Excellence At Whatever He Does, Leaving Others To Decide Whether He Is Working Or Playing
“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which … Continue reading
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Tagged Body, Both, Distinction, Labor, Leisure, Living, Master, Mind, Play, Thought For the Day, Vision of Excellence, William A. Michener, Work
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