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First Principles: Act Worthy of Yourselves
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of … Continue reading
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Arcade Mania
Arcade Maniaby Michael DoyleRemembering back to the 80s whenI couldn’t wait to put another quarter inA video star in the dark arcadeWas a revolution ready madeMy spaces were invaded rows at a timeWhen I wasn’t watching ectoplasmic slimeAtari-ized as we … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, Again and Again, Ages, Appeal, Arcade, Atari, Bangles, Boom, Bounce, Bundle, Bust, Concept, Continuoous, Crown, Cuteness, Dark, Depths, Design, Doubt, Electronic, Etoplasmic, Evolution, Flow, Forgot, Game, Glitz, Glow, Gone, Good Times, HIgh Scores, Hungry, Ignore, Impossible, Invade, Kings, Leverage, Magic, Mania, Moved On, Neglect, New Tricks, PacMan, Patterns, People, Photograph, Pizza, Play, Poem, Poetry, Quarter, Ready Made, Recall, Refine, Relic, Remember, Revelation, Revere, Reverse Engineering, Revolution, Rows, Saucy, Shot, Sketch, Slice, Slime, Society, Space, Speculate, Starcade, Strategy, Technology, Theories, Tilt, Trust, Urge, Video Star, Visualize, Wait, Walls, Women, World Changing
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Thought For the Day: We Value and Respect Every Black Life
“We value and respect every black life. The black cops who have been shot in the line of duty, they matter. The black small business owners who have watched their life’s work go up in flames, they matter. The black … Continue reading
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Tagged Black, Black Cops, Black Kids, Black Small Business Owners, Came Together, Democrat, Every, Flames, Gunned Down, Horrific, Life, Line of Duty, Lives, Matter, Mother Emanuel AME Church, Nikki Haley, Our Streets, Playground, Republican, Respect, Ruined, Shot, Stolen, Thought For the Day, Tragedy, Turn Against Each Other, Value, Violence, Watched, We, White
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First Principles: However Weak Our Country May Be, I Hope We Shall Never Sacrifice Our Liberties
“However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.” -Alexander Hamilton (1790)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Country, First Principles, Hope, Liberties, Never Sacrifice, Our, Weak
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The Tales Told
The Tales Toldby Michael DoyleThe seventh son of the seventh sonKnows he has no choice but to be the oneWho in accord with ancient prophecyMust rise above to embrace his legacyThe tales told are things quite legendaryPressing him to greatness … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient, Beauty, Believer, Blood Moon, Call, Castle, Certainty, City, Confide, Courageous, Dangerous, Dark, Darkness, Dazed, Deep Inside, Destiny, Duty, Evil, Extraordinary, Eyes, Fortune, Fully Phase, Ghost, Good, Greatness, Heart, Holy, Journey, Knight, Learn, Legacy, Legendary, Lessons, Light, Met, Mistaken, Needs, No Choice, Offshore, Photograph, Phrases, Poem, Poetry, Press, Prophecy, Put, Return, Rise Above, Road, Safety, Seventh Son, Shadows, Summoner, Tales, Tales Told, The one, Told, Unleashed, Vanquish, Wall, Warmth of Love, Whisper, Wickedness, Wise, World, Wretched
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Thought For the Day: So Long As the Human Spirit Thrives On This Planet, Music In Some Living Form Will Accompany And Sustain It
“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it.” – Aaron Copland
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Tagged Aaron Copland, ACcompany, Human Spirit, Living Form, Long, Music, Planet, Sustain, Thought For the Day, Thrive
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First Principles: It Is the Duty of Every Good Citizen To Use All the Opportunities Which Occur To Him, For Preserving Documents Relating To the History of Our Country
“It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson (1823)
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Tagged Country, Documents, Duty, First Principles, Good Citizen, History, Occur, Opportunities, Preserve, Relate, Thomas Jefferson
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In the Providence of Seneca
In the Providence of Senecaby Michael DoyleIn the age of ancient tyrannyWhen Rome had lost its libertyEven a good man might compromiseFor the partial good seen in his eyesThough at times, it took its tollTo hide his better angels in … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Age, All That Happens, Ancient, Beg For Mercy, Belong, Better Angels, Bind, Blessing, Breath of Life, Code, Complexity, Compromise, Confronted, Correspondence, Creation, Cringe, Death, Destroy, Deviation, Divinity, Done, E, Epistles, Every, Evil, Evil For Evil, Eyes, Face to Face, Facing Adversity, Fast, Felt, Fiddle, Final Analysis, For Good, Full, Garment, God, God Works, Good, Good Man, Good Person, Greater, Grow, Hide, His Creation, Hold True, Just, Kill, Knowing, Liberty, Life, Lost, Mankind, Moral Relativists, Mortal, Name of God, Nation, Natural Law, Nero, No Choice, Nobility, Order, Partial Good, Path, Perfection, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Providence, Regardless, Return, Right and Wrong, Right Way, Righteousness, Role, Rom, Rule, Satisfaction, Seam, Self, Seneca, Sense, Setting Sun, Shade, Shadows, Showing, Situational Ethics, Slavery, Socrates, Sonorous, Soul, Strains, Subjugation, Test of Evil, Testimony, Thoughts, Time, Times, Toll, Traces, Tyranny, Understood, Universe
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First Principles: The Declaration of Independence Rests … On The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day, Whether Expressed In Conversation, In Letters, Printed Essays, Or In the Elementary Books of Public Right, As Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, Et al.
“All [the] authority [of the Declaration of Independence] rests … on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, &c.” – Thomas Jefferson, … Continue reading
