“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
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Thought For the Day: A Bend In the Road Is Not the End of the Road…Unless You Fail To Make the Turn
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Thought For the Day: To Truly Love We Must Learn To Mix Various Ingredients – Care, Affection, Recognition, Respect, Commitment, and Trust, As Well As Honest and Open Communication
“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients – care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.” – Bell Hooks
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First Principles: Patriotism Is As Much A Virtue As Justice, and Is As Necessary for the Support of Societies As Natural Affection Is for the Support of Families
“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.” – Benjamin Rush (1773)
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First Principles:
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” -Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Thought For the Day: The Character That Takes Command In Moments of Critical Choices Has Already Been Determined
”The character that takes command in moments of critical choices has already been determined. It has been determined by a thousand other choices made earlier in seemingly unimportant moments. It has been determined by all those ‘little’ choices of years past—by all those times when the voice of conscience was at war with the voice of temptation—whispering a lie that ‘it doesn’t really matter.’. It has been determined by all the day-to-day decisions made when life seemed easy and crises seemed far away, the decisions that piece by piece, bit by bit, developed habits of discipline or of laziness; habits of self-sacrifice or self-indulgence; habits of duty and honor and integrity—or dishonor and shame.” – Ronald Reagan
Breath Walks Through The Back Door
Breath Walks Through The Back Door
by Michael Doyle
Music is the magic of the tones we find
In leaving our troubled world far behind
Feeding our core once and again
Can be the breath of the violin
As breath walks through the back door
Opening the heart to love and explore
There is no other best expediency
In walking our path of true resiliency
Escaping all of life's pointed vulgarities
Finding technique of humor's familiarity
Listening to our muse in the dark and deep
There in those secret spaces that we keep
Life comes at us, through the moment to moment
Between the multiverse lines of smiles and torment
Within the chant that charts our every course
It is there that we make connection with our source
Breathing is the substance that reveals our joy
Giving the best of life for us live and to employ
Those things that are present in our meditation
And that we find best in our internal connection
(c) February 19, 2021 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: No Nation Has Ever Taxed Itself Into Prosperity
“No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.” – Rush Limbaugh
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First Principles: To Secure These Rights, Governments Are Instituted Among Mankind, Deriving Their Just Powers From the Consent of the Governed
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” – Thomas Jefferson, in The Declaration of Independence
Thought For the Day: The Public Welfare Demands That Constitutional Cases Must Be Decided According To the Terms of the Constitution Itself and Not According To Judges’ Views of Fairness, Reasonableness Or Justice
“The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice.” – Justice Hugo L. Black (1886-1971)
First Principles: Kings or Parliaments Could Not Give the Rights Essential To Happiness… We Claim Them From A Higher Source – From the King of Kings, and Lord of All the Earth
“Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness… We claim them from a higher source — from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power, without taking our lives.” – John Dickinson
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