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Thought For the Day: The Answer Is…To Teach Ourselves To Comprehend Each Person, Not As A Symbol of A Group, But As A Unique and Special Individual Within A Common Context of Shared Humanity
“The answer is to go deeper than race, deeper than wealth, deeper than ethnic identity, deeper than gender. To teach ourselves to comprehend each person, not as a symbol of a group, but as a unique and special individual within a … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Beauty, Common Context, Comprehend, Create, Deeper, Each Person, Ethnic Identity, Family, Fundamental Place, Gender, Individual, Mortal Creatures, Not A Symbol Of A Group, Order, Race, Shared Humanity, Special, Teach, Thought For the Day, Unique, Wealth, Wyatt Tee Walker
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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respected
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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Tagged Excess, Faculties, First Principles, In Opinions, James Madison, No Person, Person, Possessions, Power, Prevail, Property, Respected, Safe
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In the Elegance of You
In the Elegance of Youby Michael DoyleWhether dressed in red or blueThe lady I wish to dance with is youNot just for today or a few more tomorrowsBut in always in all days in joy and in sorrowHolding you close … Continue reading
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Tagged Again, All Days, Best Friend, Best Place, Blue, Bound Together, Care, Cheek To Cheek, Close To My Heart, Closer, Confidant, Dance, Dress, Elegance, Evening, Face, Feel, Final End, First Song, Gentle, Hearts Beat, In My Heart, Joy, Lady, Love, Moment, Never Fear, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rainbow, Red, Share, Soft, Sorrow, Think, Three Times A Lady, Today, Tomorrow, Wait, Waterfalls, Whisper, Woman, Words, Wrap, You
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Thought For the Day: Make Mankind Wise and By That Very Operation You Make Them Free
“Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.” – William Godwin (1756-1836)
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Tagged Artillery, Civil Liberty, Consequence, Free, Mankind, Operation, Opinion, Stand, Thought For the Day, Usurped Power, William Godwin, Wise
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First Principles: The Judicial Branch May Truly Be Said To Have Neither Force Nor Will, But Merely Judgment and Must Ultimately Depend On the Aid of the Executive Arm Even For the Efficacy of Its Judgments
“[The judicial branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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The Greater the Miracles
The Greater the Miraclesby Michael DoyleReligion it seems is love’s emotionPersonified and adhered to with devotionFor a person who lives life without reasonHas committed the most personal of treasonsIn the Grand Inquisitor we find rarified poetryIn which passions are taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Aching, Again, Arise, Astray, Atone, Belief, Burn, Capability, Constants, Desire, Despotism, Devil, Devotion, Divine, Easily Led, Edge, Emotion, Fable, Faith, Fed, Freedom, Grave, Greater, Hate, Hell, Heresy, Himself, History, Jesus, Keys to the Kingdom, Kind, Late, Laugh, Lessons, Life, Live by Bread Alone, Live Life, Living, Love, Man, Miracles, Mistake, Mystery, Not Hate, Passion, Photograph, Piety, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power, Random Chances, Rare, Religion, Responsibility, Save, Second Chance, Seek, Strife, Suffer the Children, Temporal, Temptation, The Grand Inquisitor, Three Days, Treason, True Sign, Turn, War, Water Into Wine, Ways of Love, Without Reason, Work Miracles
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First Principles: I Hold the Maxim No Less Applicable To Public Than To Private Affairs, That Honesty Is Always the Best Policy
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.” – George Washington
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Thought For the Day: The Measure of A Man’s Real Character Is What He Would Do If He Knew He Would Never Be Found Out
“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”– Thomas Babington Macaulay, author and statesman (25 Oct 1800-1859)
