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First Principles: It Is Error Alone That Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself.
“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)
Thought For the Day: If Galileo Had Said In Verse That the World Moved, the Inquisition Might Have Let Him Alone
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.” -Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (2 Jun 1840-1928)
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Tagged Alone, Galileo, Inquisition, Said, Thomas Hardy, Thought For the Day, Verse, World
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A Cry for Uvalde
A Cry for Uvaldeby Michael DoyleSomewhere beyond a world of feelingIs the way of knowing healingThese are the times for being an exampleThe differences made will be ampleFighting not with fists but with prayerPeeling back the onion of life, layer … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Actions, Alone, Ample, Beautiful Souls, Behind, Belief, Best Fights, Blame, Bullied, Burnt to the Ground, Candlelight, Community, Cornerstone, Cruelly Dealt, Cry, Cuentas, Dead, Differences Made, Dificil, Disease, Dreams, Every Day, Every Single Day, Example, Faces, Faith, Families, Fault Is His, Favorite Songs, Feeling, Felt, Fight the Good Fight, Fighting, Grief, Gut Wrenching Torments, Hand of Lucifer, Healing, Humbled Cry, Hundreds, It Didn't Have To Be His Choice, Knees, Know, La Muerte de Los Ninos, Layer, Lifted A Hand, Lifting Our Voices, Lives, Loss, Love, Loved Ones, Matters, Memories, Mi Apoyo, Momento, Moments, Morning, Mourning, Nation, Night, Not With Fists, Noticia, Onion of Life, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Prayers, Question Why, Rebuild, Sabes, Safe, Salvador Ramos, School, Sense, Shakes and Shatters, Shamed, Silently Erected, Sin, So Be It, So It Will Be Done, Sorrow, Survive, Survivor's Guilt, Tears, Thursday, Times, Torture, Traces, Tragedy, Transcend, Trust Falling, Twenty-One Crosses, Used Their Voice, Uvalde, Vigils, Viviendo, Walk, Warnings, Wicked Ways, Wounds, Years
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The Slow Crawl
The Slow Crawlby Michael DoylePushing past the slow crawl of another dayEdged to darkness and I begin to prayTo a god that I feel unsure ofBut who has a sense of humor disguised as loveDeath is a way out of … Continue reading
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Tagged All I Loved Died, All of My Thoughts, Alone, Another Day, Authentic, Beach, Being, Blessing, Brutality, Change, Contend, Curse, Darkness, Daze, Death, Deeply, Deeply Feel, Disguise, Edge, End, Failed Humanity, Flow, Given heart, God, Grains, Heal, Heart, Honest, Humor, Immortality, Learn, Lessons, Life, Love, Math, Maze, Mercy, Naught, Need, Path, Pits, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Pushing Past, Reach, River, Scars, Seen, Slow Burn, Slow Crawl, Staring Deep, Stone, Straighter Course, Stranger, Twisted, Undeserving, Unsure, Waking Up, Wish, Worse
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First Principles: The Battle, Sir, Is Not To the Strong Alone; It Is To the Vigilant, the Active, the Brave
“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” – Patrick Henry …Repeated Ukraine to Russia….
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Tagged Active, Alone, Brave, First Principles, Patrick Henry, Sir, Strong, Vigilant
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The Sphinx of Legacy
The Sphinx of Legacyby Michael DoyleIn the mystery of the sphinxIs the ancient mystery that linksTo secret rooms of love and wisdomIt brings release like keys to the kingdomSome are kept prisoner by this lureWhile others believe this is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aged, Alone, Another Tale, Arrive, Been, Better Off Dead, Buried, Burn, Cheat the Devil, Clever, Close To Home, Coded Memory, Core, Crumbs of Dreams, Cure, Death, Depths, Drifting Along, Easy As A Rhyme, Echoes, Face, Flames, Forever, Free Flow, Glory, Goldfish In A Bowl, Grace, Heads, Hope, Human Beings, In the End, Keys to the Kingdom, Last Person, Last Sunset, Lasting Legacy, Lasting Regret, Leave, Legacy, Level, Link, Long Goodbye, Love and Wisdom, Lure, Marking Time, Meet, Met, Mirror, More Is the Pity, Mystery, Play the Game, Play With Fire, Plumb, Poetry and Poems, Pray For Grace, Remembers You, Riding Hard, Rinse and Repeat, Room Enough, Secret Rooms, Shadows, Shivers, Sorrow, Sphinx, Stay Alive, Throne, To the Bone, Today, Tombstone, Tomorrow, True, Unscathed, Visitors, Wandered Far, Watches, We All Die, Where
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Making Moments Memories
Making Moments Memoriesby Michael DoyleIt’s the momentsNot selfies that we needIn these times that aren’t contentBut from these, we can be freedLike mental orgasmsCrept up on with enthusiasmNot the dull day of egoThat add up to practically zeroOne photo after … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Amuck, Banality, Beauty and Kindness, Center, Complete, Connection, Content, Criminalize, Days, Dies, Direction, Disorder, Dull Day, Ego, Endless, Endure, Enthusiasm, Equal, Ever After, Every Breath and Sigh, Every Life, Exterminate, Eyes, Family, Finality, Freed, Friends, Grab Us A Memory, Grasp, Holy, Humanity, Ignore, Intimacy, Joy Thieves, Laugh, Laughter, Less Is More, Life More Livable, Life Reveals, Lifeless, Living In Memory, Memories, Mental Orgasms, Moments, Music, Need, Onslaught, Opened, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Sacred, Scenes of Beauty, Self, Selfies, Smile, Steal, Tears, Timeless, Times, Times of Humor, Tiny Moments, True, Unforgettable, Vital, Wonder, Words, Zero
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First Principles: The Battle, Sir, Is Not To the Strong Alone; It Is To the Vigilant, the Active, the Brave
“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” – Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, 1775
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Tagged Active, Alone, Battle, Brave, First Principles, Patrick Henry, Strong, Vigilant
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First Principles: The People Alone Have the Incontestable…Right to Institute Government; and To Reform, Alter, or Totally Change the Same, When Their Protection, Safety, Prosperity and Happiness Require It
“…(T)he people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.” – John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
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Tagged Alone, Alter, Change, First Principles, Government, Happiness, Incontestable, John Adams, Prosperity, Protection, Reform, Require, Safety, The People, Thoughts on Government (1776)
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First Principles: The Battle, Sir, Is Not the Strong Alone; It Is To the Vigilant, the Active, the Brave
“The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” – Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Convention, 1775
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Tagged Active, Alone, Battle, Brave, First Principles, Patrick Henry, Strong, Vigilant, Virginia Convention
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