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First Principles: I Hope That We Shall Crush In Its Birth the Aristocracy of Our Monied Corporations Which Dare Already To Challenge Our Government To A Trial of Strength and Bid Defiance To the Laws of Our Country
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Aristocracy, Bid Defiance, Birth, Challenge, Country, Crush, Dre, First Principles, Government, Hope, Laws, Monied Corporations, Thomas Jefferson, Trial of Strength
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Thought For the Day: We’ve Spent About $22 Trillion In Government Money Where 70% Goes Not To the Poor But To Those Who ‘Serve’ the Black
“And what we’ve done over the last 50 years, we’ve spent about $22 trillion in government money where 70 percent goes not to the poor, but to those who serve the poor. Blacks have been in office and conditions for … Continue reading
A Vacation In the Reflective
A Vacation In the Reflectiveby Michael DoyleIt seems to me that there’s one thingCovid has brought and its the thrivingThat comes in knowing it’s not really destinationGiving us the best of our family vacationIt does not hurt in thinking locationBut, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambience, Architecture, Beauty, Billion, Blown Ego, Candid, Catch the Light, Collect, Contrast, Covid, Creative, Curves, Dawn, Day, Death's Embrace, Destination, Difference, Differently, Dignity, Dingy, Draw, Early To rise, Edges, Eloquent, Exact, Familiar, Family, Family Vacation, Feel, Floor, Focus, Found, Grey, Handholding, Highest Degree, Hurt, Images, Inside, Intimacy, Intricate, Just Right, Know, Lattice, Life, Linger, Location, Lunacy, Making the Best, Marble, Measuring Ages, Moments, Mt. Rushmore, New Angle, Opportunity, Perspective, Photo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Real, Reflect, Remind, Restrict, Reverence, Said, Seems, Share, Situation, Sky, Snapshot, Spin, Standard Image, Statue of Liberty, Stiff As A Board, Surprise, Texture, Thoughtful Expression, Thrive, Too Big, Top Down View, Trip of the Shutter, Twilight, Vacation, Visual, Whole Other World, World, Wounded Pride
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Thought For the Day: The Inherent Vice of Capitalism Is the Unequal Sharing of Blessings. The Inherent Virtue of Socialism Is the Equal Sharing of Miseries.
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. … Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.” – Winston … Continue reading
First Principles: History and Experience Prove That Foreign Influence Is One of the Most Baneful Foes of Republican Government
“History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.” – George Washington (1796)
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Tagged Baneful Foe, Experience, First Principles, Foreign Influence, George Washington, Government, History, Prove, Republican
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Ghosts of A Daddy’s Duty
Ghosts of A Daddy’s Dutyby Michael DoyleSpent the weekendHoping for the GodsendThat of finding a ghostOr, at least making the mostOf finding a haunted houseQuiet like a church mouseCreeping around a shadow’s homeWondering if we are aloneWe didn’t find any … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Around, Believe, Church Mouse, Creeping, Dad, Daddy, Daddy Duty, Driving, Duty, Fear, Find, Fun, Gain, Ghost, Ghosts, Godsend, Haunted House, Home, Hope, Less, Making the Most, Miles, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Saw, Shadow, Smiles, Spirits, Weekend, Wonder, Young
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Thought For the Day: Tolerance Is A Better Guarantee of Freedom Than Brotherly Love
“Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper.” – Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941)
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Tagged Appointed, Brother, Brother's Keeper, Brotherly Love, Everett Dean Martin, Freedom, Guarantee, Love, Man, Thought For the Day, Tolerance
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First Principles: There Are Certain Primary Truths, Or First Principles, On Which All Subsequent Reasoning Must Depend
“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Certain, Depend, Disquisitions, Every Kind, First Principles, Primary, Reasoning, Subsequent, Truth
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When Tomorrow Comes Your Day
When Tomorrow Comes Your Dayby Michael DoyleWrapped up in the depths of your soulAs we talk along our evening’s strollI see my heroes inside your heartEasily seeing what sets you apartYour words as you touch me deepWhisper you are who … Continue reading
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Tagged Always Stay, Always There, Apart, Beside me, Comes, Connection, Dancing, Day, Depth, Drift Off, Evening, Every Single Day, Eyes, Feel, Fill, Find, God, Growing Love, Heart, Hero, Keep, Kneel, Love Shine, My Dear, Not Fleeting, Peace of Mind, Photograph, Pillow, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Reflection, See, Shadow, Sleep, Sleeping, Soul, Strength, Strong Enough, Surprise, Talk, Thank you, Think, Tomorrow, Touch, Wake Up, Whisper, Whispering, Wrapped, You, Your Love, Your Words
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Keeping Our Truth
Keeping Our Truthby Michael DoyleReaching out in my cognitionHoping that my thoughts and perceptionsMight find a little recognitionAnd from that grow some receptionLiving life under another’s definitionPoints in mockery at the deceptionAs we walk this world in disguiseKeeping our truth … Continue reading
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Tagged After, Best Outcome, Bold, Certain, Choice, Chose, Cognition, Creativity, Deception, Definition, Destination, Destiny, Disguise, Do the Math, Edge, Explore, Eyes, Find My Way, Grow, Head, Imagination, Inner Voice, Journey, Keep, Know, Laughter, Living Life, Mock, Originality, Other, Path, Perceptions, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reaching Out, Reception, Recognition, Restrain, Step, Stumble, Thoughts, Truth, Walk, World
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