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Thought For the Day: Drama Is Life With the Dull Bits Left Out. There Is No Terror In the Bang, Only In the Anticipation of It
“Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Audience, Bang, Drama, Dull Bits, Endurance, Film, Horror, Length, Life, Mind, Screen, Terror, Thought For the Day
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Subversive of Conformity
Subversive of Conformityby Michael DoyleSame likes same, in the interest of conformity.But do we stop to consider the vast enormity?What is the outcome of unquestioning loyaltyIn a nation and world prone toward brutality?However infantile, an attack on orthodoxyLeaves a lasting … Continue reading
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Tagged Blasphemy, Brutality, Conformity, Enormity, Faith, God, Infantile, Interest, Jesus, Land of the Free, Loyalty, Orthodoxy, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Question, Subserviion
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First Principles: Let Us Ever Remember That Our Interest Is In Concord, Not In Conflict; and That Our Real Eminence Rests In the Victories of Peace, Not Those of War
“Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.” – William McKinley
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is More Active Than Thought, For It Travels Over the Universe, and Nothing Is Stronger Than Necessity For All Must Submit To It
“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.” – Thales
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Hoosier Rains
Hoosier Rainsby Michael DoyleIt has been over twenty years nowAnd it’s on my mind still somehow.I was driving, approaching the state lineOf Indiana, determined to make it mine.Shortly before the sight of the dunes, I had plannedTo visit like some … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Central, Crags, Destination, Dunes, Flatness, Glacier, Grace, Heart, Hills, Himility, Hoosier, Hoosier Hopsitality, hoosiers, Indiana, Kindness, Lake Michigan, Location, Mind, Naive Skies, Nature, Planted Ground, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Rain, Rainbow, Reality, Reputation, Sand, Silence, Soul, State Line, Structure, SUV, Time's Passages, Tranquility, Travel, Twenty Years
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First Principles: God Forbid That Day Should Ever Come When, In the American Mind, the Thought of Man As Consumer Shall Submerge …Man As A Creature of God
“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.” – Benjamin Harrison
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Tagged American Mind, American Thought, Benjamin Harrison, Consumer, Creature of God, Day, Endow, First Principles, God, Man, Unalienable Rights
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Thought For the Day: Never Worry About Numbers. Help One Person At A Time and Always Start With the Person Nearest You
“Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.” – Mother Teresa
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Finding Christian Contentment
Finding Christian Contentmentby Michael DoyleRejoice in and readily show your love,Following the ways of our God above.Always seeking after our good contentmentWhile doing our best to reach for improvement.Whatever your situation and circumstance,We can defeat the discomfort of our happenstance.It … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christian Contentment, Christianity, Circumstance, Discomofrt, Faith, God, Heart, Jesus, Love, Poetry and Poems
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Thought For the Day: Those Who Are Happiest Are Those Who Do the Most For Others
“Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” – Booker T. Washington
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First Principles: Do Nothing Out of Selfish Ambition Or Vain Conceit. Rather, In Humility, Value Others Above Yourselves
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.” – Philippians 2:3 NIV
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