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Thought For the Day: Tolerance Is An Attitude of Reasoned Patience Toward Evil…Tolerance Applies Only To Persons…Never To Truth

“Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil… a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons… never to truth.” – Fulton J. Sheen, “A Plea For Intolerance” (1931)and “Old Errors and … Continue reading

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Do What Thou Wilt

Do What Thou Wiltby Michael DoyleThe young Jimmy Page wore his guitarist crownPlaying the only thing that never got him downHe was never one to live life overly uptightBut he has lived life with a voracious appetiteIt’s a thing of … Continue reading

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First Principles: To Model Our Political System Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility, Is To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of the Human Character

“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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First Principles: Music Gives A Soul To the Universe, Wings To the Mind, Flight To the Imagination and Life To Everything

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.” – Plato

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Thought For the Day: Where Words Fail, Music Speaks

“Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen

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First Principles: Our First Object Should Therefore Be, To Leave Open To Him All the Avenues To Truth. The Most Effectual…Is the Freedom of the Press

“Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual …is the freedom of the press.” – Thomas Jefferson

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Thought For the Day: Learning Is Acquired By Reading Books; But the Much More Necessary Learning, the Knowledge of the World, Is Only Acquired By Reading Man

“Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.” – Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (22 … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Sacred Rights of Mankind Are Not To Be Rummaged For Among Old Parchments, Or Musty Records. They Are Written…In the Whole Volume of Human Nature, By the Hand of the Divinity Itself

“To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free … Continue reading

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Of All Things Valued

Of All Things Valuedby Michael DoyleLike pieces arranged on the chessboardThe Man from La Mancha bears his swordPrince or pawnbroker, there is trade for madnessBut only the type that perpetually leads to sadnessThe battle with evil and giants cannot compareWith … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Last Stage But One of Every Civilization, Is Characterized By the Forced Political Unification of Its Constituent Parts, Into A Single Greater Whole

“The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.” – Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975)

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