“We Cannot Solve Our Problems With the Same Thinking We Used When We Created Them” Albert Einstein
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Thought For the Day: We Cannot Solve Our Problems With The Same Thinking We Used When We Created Them
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First Principles: Energy In the Executive Is…Essential to the Protection of the Community Against Foreign Attacks
“Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, and of anarchy.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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Our Everything
Our Everything
by Michael Doyle
Not just important, but our everything
Our reason for all and the joy of our being
No compartmentalizing, but our purpose
Our every reason with nothing to presuppose
All things through and of God to love
This truth we must keep above
All else that we say and we do
This truth must always be kept in view
Christ be the one thing we place first
The bringer of light and quencher of thirst
Every part of our life is an altar to the Lord
Creating the plowshares that we push forward
Life is to be lived in full engagement
In heart and attitude as our encouragement
Going forward in our Great Commission
We pray over our life's ongoing mission
It all come down to placing trust
And if you're living in faith, you must
I would rather be ashes than dust
It's what it comes to as a matter of trust
(c) March 17, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: America Is Another Name For Opportunity. Our Whole History Appears Like A Last Effort of Divine Providence In Behalf of the Human Race
“America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
First Principles: Foreign Influence Is Truly the Grecian Horse To A Republic. We Cannot Be Too Careful To Exclude Its Influence
“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.” – Alexander Hamilton (1793)
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A Dance of Fate
A Dance of Fate
by Michael Doyle
Life is more than merely fate
It is never really too late
To realize that we have choices
Lifted up in our true voices
If only we might choose
No longer allowing life to abuse
Examining what we might refuse
And refusing to allow blindness to confuse
Subtle are the decisions we might make
In choosing which of paths to take
Never placing fault or cursing blame
But instead choosing how we might frame
These things that happen as circumstance
From rushing forward as if in happenstance
Leaving as little as possible to chance
While giving the past a mere glance
Over the shoulder as taken on this ride
Where it is that destinies do collide
Troubled less as if oceans churned
In their fullest depths yet to be discerned
(c) March 16, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: A Judge Has A Duty To Decide Cases Based Solely On the Law…Empathy Should Not Play A Role In A Judge’s Consideration of A Case
“A judge has a duty to decide cases based solely on the law … [T]o the extent that empathy is defined as one’s ability to share what another person is feeling from the other person’s point of reference, empathy should not play a role in a judge’s consideration of a case.” – Senator Mike Lee
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First Principles: One Single Object Will Merit the Endless Gratitude of the Society: That of Restraining the Judges From Usurping Legislation
“One single object … [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” – Thomas Jefferson (1825)
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First Principles: We Should Look Upon the Different Parts of Government With A Just and Impartial Eye
“In observations on this subject, we hear the legislature mentioned as the people’s representatives. The distinction, intimated by concealed implication, through probably, not avowed upon reflection, is, that the executive and judicial powers are not connected with the people by a relation so strong or near or dear. But is high time that we should chastise our prejudices; and that we should look upon the different parts of government with a just and impartial eye.” – James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
Thought For the Day: Beware of the Stories You Read Or Tell; Subtly, At Night, Beneath the Waters of Consciousness, They Are Altering Your World
“Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” -Ben Okri, poet and novelist (b. 15 Mar 1959
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