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Thought For the Day: The Liberties of A People Never Were, Nor Ever Were, Nor Ever Will Be, Secure, When the Transactions of Their Rulers May Be Concealed From Them
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” – Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
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Tagged Conceal, Liberties, Never, Patrick Henry, People, Rulers, Securely, Them, Thought For the Day, Transactions
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Aim, Art of Government, Being Honest, Consists, Counselors, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Great Principles, Legible, Mankind, Pursue, Reader, Require, Right and Wrong, Thomas Jefferson
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Darkness Shapes the Hearts
Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Religion Without Magic Any More Than There is Magic Without At Least A Trace of Religion
“There is no religion without magic any more than there is magic without at least a trace of religion. The notion of a supernature exists only for a humanity which attributes supernatural powers to itself and in return ascribes the … Continue reading
First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Power of the Society But the People Themselves
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading
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Tagged Control, Discretion, Enlighten, Eucation, Exercise, First Principles, Inform, Remedy, Safe Depository, Society, Take It, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Ultimate Powers, Wholesome
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From the Perspective of the Rus
From the Perspective of the Rusby Michael DoyleStanding on the shoulders of wisdomBy each step we build separate kingdomsThe Brothers Karamazov built on a grain of wheatThat life comes from death and death is not defeatAll the suffering that we … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Rule, Authority, Autocracy, Beyond, Brothers Karamazov, Capability, Connection, Constantanople, Culture, Death, Declaration, Decree, Defeat, Despotism, Different, Division, Dreams, Driven, Fallible, Forces, Foundation, Freedom Lovers, God, Grain, Historical, History, Kiev, King, Kingdom, Kingdoms, Liberty, Life, Monarch, Mother Russia, Nation, Ninth Century, No Relief, Nobility, Ordained Choice, Orthodoxy, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Principles, Purpose, Reflection, Relationships, Reservation, Reverent, Rule, Russia, Sacred, Shoulders, Solzhenitsyn, Soul, Step, Suffering, Supreme, Talk, Temporal, True Belief, Twin Blades, Undergon, United, Viking, Voice, Western Civilization, Wheat, Wisdom, Withstand
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Thought For the Day: An Election Is Nothing More Than the Advanced Auction of Stolen Goods
“An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.” – Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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Tagged Advance, Ambrose Bierce, Auction, Election, Goods, Nothing, Stolen, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: He Who Permits Himself To Tell A Lie Once, Finds It Much Easier To Do It A Second and A Third Time, Until At Length It Becomes Habitual
“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Contemptible, Easier, First Principles, Habitual, Length, Lie Once, Mean, No Vice, Permit, Pitiful, Self, Thomas Jefferson
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God Revealed In the Smallest Details
God Revealed In the Smallest Detailsby Michael DoyleThe eyes might be the windows of the soulBut it’s the little things that elude controlWhere through the lenses of macrophotographyWe become consumed with our use of technologyIt all opens up a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Autofocus, Background, Best Friend, Best Hour, Color, Composition, Consume, Created, Deep, Definition, Details, Elude Control, Embrace, Enhance, Extraordinary, Eyes, Face, Flower, Found, Friend, Gaze, God, Heartbreaks, Hint, Lense, Light, Little Things, Macrophotography, Masterpiece, Mistakes, New World, Ordinary, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Simple, Small, Soft, Soul, Tale, Tear, Technology, The Greatest Artist, Three Dimensions, Trace, True, View, Windows
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First Principles: No Subject Shall Be Restrained…For Worshipping God In the Manner Most Agreeable To the Dictates of His Own Conscience
“It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreeable, Conscience, Dictates, First Principles, God, John Adams, Manner, No Subject, Own, Restrained, Thoughts On Government, Worship
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