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First Principles: Here Comes the Orator! With His Flood of Words, and His Drop of Reason
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Thought For the Day: I Have Never Let My Schooling Interfere With My Education
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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First Principles: Labor To Keep Alive In Your Breast That Little Spark of Celestial Fire Called Conscience
“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.” – George Washington (1748)
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Thought For the Day: Concentrated Power Is Not Rendered Harmless By the Good Intentions of Those Who Create It
“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.“ – Milton Friedman
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Salt and Light
Salt and Light
by Michael Doyle
We need with loving greeting
To return to uplifting prayer meetings
Step by step, we can find God again
It starts by sharing God's love with friends
It's in improving our Godly relationship
That we can and will improve our government
Finding our way back to a Jesus movement
Will find our national morality's improvement
Let's take this moment of opportunity
To embrace what is right for you and me
These are the last days of prophecy
As spirit pours out for more than love of misery
In these days of loving evil over good
The difficulties increase as knew they would
Sin will be rampant as never before
The need for God has never been more
Love has been banished in the face of hate
Grown cold but still we know it's not too late
We must be prepared to act on our great commission
We are to be the salt and light as our mission
Tocqueville found our greatness in the our churches
Where America flourishes even as our nation lurches
In prayer, God will guide and tell us what to do
And we can do what is needed, me and you
It's up to each of us to be the light
Starting with each of us together, we'll make it right
Letting God use us to press ever on
Determined to follow before our opportunity is gone
(c) March 10, 2021 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Wisdom and Good Examples Are Necessary At This Time To Rescue the Political Machine From the Impending Storm
“Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.” – George Washington (1786)
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Thought For the Day: Anyone Who Wishes To Become A Good Writer Should Endeavor, Before He (Or She) Allows Himself/Herself To Be Tempted By the More Showy Qualities, To Be Direct, Simple, Brief, Vigorous and Lucid
“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.” – H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933)
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Thought For the Day: Memo To Social Justice Warriors: When What You’re Doing Sounds Like An Onion Headline, Stop
“Liberals need a Stand Your Ground law … for cancel culture. So that when the woke mob comes after you for some ridiculous offense, you’ll stand your ground, stop apologizing. Cancel culture is real, it’s insane, it’s growing exponentially, coming to a neighborhood near you. Memo to social justice warriors: When what you’re doing sounds like an Onion headline, stop.” – Bill Maher
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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom of Speech
“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” -Benjamin Franklin (1722)
A Little Bit of Empathy
A Little Bit of Empathy
by Michael Doyle
The relationship is about you
And then again, it's about me
It's about our step into divinity
Do we love our God flawlessly?
It's about the work yet to be done
It's about God's love poured out to everyone
Let's get back to the good book
We'll find what we need if and when we look
Toward serving all of the others
Sharing the gospel to sisters and brothers
We are interdependent as a family
Serving with encouragement all that is holy
Meeting together to find sacred community
Thriving as we grow into needed sanctity
We need to restore the loss we have felt
When the calamities of life dealt
Pulled from the waters of our life
Revive into the peace of love and not strife
No longer drowning in a sea of apathy
True revival of the Church is found in empathy
In 50 years despite advances in technology
We have seen a decline in our theology
Prayer has been stripped from public display
While God has been pushed out of our history
Two hundred years from bondage and back
Loss of God brings us back as we lack
Without God's laws there is no liberty
It's a necessary decision to live holy
We must humble ourselves and pray
Seeking God's love there as we're losing our liberty
We must awaken to our sacred duty
Allowing God to restore belief's beauty
In this passion we serve in our belief
Finding our way back from accursed grief
In this, is how we find our salvation
And in so doing, step forward to save the nation
Another great awakening is what is needed
One in which God's voice is truly heeded
Keeping true to our lives' conversion
We can save our society from its perversion
(c) March 8, 2021 Michael Doyle
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