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First Principles: The Power To Tax Is the Power To Destroy
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” – John Marshall
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Thought For the Day: There Is A Longing Among All People and Creatures To Have A Sense of Purpose and Worth. To Satisfy That Common Longing In All of Us, We Must Respect Each Other
“There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.” – Chief Dan George
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First Principles: I Congratulate You, My Fellow-Citizens, Upon the High State of Prosperity To Which the Goodness of Divine Providence Has Conducted Our Common Country. Let Us Invoke A Continuance of the Same
“I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings … Continue reading
Silenced Gentrification
Silenced Gentrificationby Michael DoyleThe sanctimonious and the truly racistBleat on as they savagely persist.Demanding urban stratification In lieu of what is deemed gentrification.They claim that loving a bit of silenceIs tantamount to committing true violenceAgainst those too poor to find … Continue reading
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Tagged Gentrification, Noise Pollution, Persistance, Poetry and Poems, Racist, Sanctimonious, Silence, Solution, Stratifcation, Violence
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Thought For the Day: There May Be Trouble Ahead – But While There’s Moonlight, and Music, and Love, and Romance – Let’s Face the Music and Dance
“There may be trouble ahead – But while there’s moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let’s face the music and dance.” – Irving Berlin
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Tagged Dance, Face, Fuiture, Iriving Berlin, Love, Moonlight, Music, Romance, Thought For the Day, Trouble
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First Principles: I Am Not Influenced By the Expectation of Promotion Or Pecuniary Reward. I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good Becomes Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a … Continue reading
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Tagged Expectation, First Principles, Honor, Influence, Nathan Hale, Necessity, Pecuniary Reward, Promotion, Public Good, Service, Usefulness, Wish
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Thought For the Day: It Does Not Require Many Words To Speak the Truth
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” – Chief Joseph
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First Principles: All Distinctions of Birth Or of Rank Have Been Abolished. All Citizens, Whether Native Or Adopted, Are Placed Upon Terms of Precise Equality
“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.” – James Polk
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Tagged Abolishment, Adopted, All Citizens, Birth, Distinction, Entitlement, Equality, First Principles, James K. Polk, Native, Percision, Protection, Rank, Rights, Term
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Resurrected Life
Resurrected Lifeby Michael DoyleGratitude flows from the inside.This is the resurrected life that I can’t hide.The Word of God fuels the fireGiving all of us our holy desires.To do what pleases God within our dreams – The story of Joseph … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christianity, Dream, Evil, Faith, God, Good, Gratitude, Holiness, Holy Spirit, Intention, Jesus, Joseph, Life, Overflow, Poetry and Poems, Resurrection, Understanding, Word of God
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is Discovered Without God’s Intention and Assistance
“Nothing is discovered without God’s intention and assistance, and I suppose every new knowledge of His works that is conceded to man to be distinctly a revelation by which men are to guide themselves.” – Charles Dickens
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