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Madami II
Madami IIby Michael DoyleThere is a creeping conspiracy of making up liesTo make society’s driving forces into bad guys. Most of the rich in America worked to get there.To believe otherwise is a sad game of stoking fear.The Havana Model … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Budget Should Be Balanced, the Treasury Should Be Refilled, the Public Debt Should Be Reduced and the Arrogance of Public Officials Should Be Controlled
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.” – Ross Perot
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Tagged Arrogance, Balance, Budget, Control, Public Debt, Public Officials, Reduce, Refil, Ross Perot, Thought For the Day, Treasury
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Thought For the Day: The Wisest Man Is He Who Does Not Fancy That He Is So At All
“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.” – Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711), in Satires, also known as Satire 4 (1716) The most authentic wisdom is humility, which recognizes … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Best Path, Blinding Factor, Educate, Fancy, First Step, Grow, Healthy Skepticism, Humility, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learn, Limitation, Man, New Experience, Question Authority, Satire 4, self-improvement, Social Media, Socratic Paradox, Thought For the Day, Understanding, Wisdom, Wise
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Thought For the Day: Fight Your Superficiality, Your Shallowness, So As To Try To Come At People Without Unreal Expectations, Without An Overload of Bias or Hope or Arrogance
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating … Continue reading
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Tagged American Pastoral, Arrogance, Art, Bias, Books, Fight, Forget, Go Along, Hope, Open Mind, Philip Roth, Poetry, Right or Wrong, Shallowness, Superficiality, The Ride, Thought For the Day, Unreal Expectations, Writing
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Mountain of Consequence
Mountain of Consequenceby Michael DoyleThere are legends of lost treasureThat goes deep and beyond known measureThe locks that must be brokenAs the stories are told, quietly spokenMankind’s greed leads to deathAn old man mumbles under breathWhile the bringer of life … Continue reading
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Tagged Age Old Story, Ansswer, Arrogance, Awe, Beg, Beyond, Bleed, Breath, Bringer of Lifee, Broken, Bury, Calculated Science, Call, Castle, Consequence, Control, Cres, Darkness, Date, Day, Death, Death and Misery, Deep, Dies, Disenchanted, Echo, Embrace, Everything and Everyone, Face to Face, Fairytales, Fate, Forgive, Fractured Soul, Fragile, Free, Frozen Prayer, Greed, Harshness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heresy, Horror, Intolerance, Know, Left, Legends, Length, Live, Lock, Lost Treasure, Love, Mankind, Measure, Meet, Mercy, Mountain, Mumble, Need, New Strength, Old man, Pines, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Promise, Search, See, Seeking Glory, Snow, Sorrows, Spoken, Street, Survive, Tears, The End, Tomorrow, Tortured Souls, Trace, True Secret, Universe, Unknown God, Valley of Sorrow, Verse, Wish
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Thought For the Day: Humility Will Open More Doors Than Arrogance Ever Will
“Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will.” – Zig Ziglar
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Tagged Arrogance, Doors, Humility, Open, Thought For the Day, Will, Zig Ziglar
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The Rejected Man Stumbles
The Rejected Man Stumblesby Michael DoyleThe rejected man stumbles back into the darknessFilled as he has become by this life’s harshnessHe had been helpful and knowledgeable in his waysAnd though ill-tempered, he was useful in his daysScience, too, is useful … Continue reading
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Tagged Aberration, Abomination, Acceptable, Accountable, Afraid, Anger, Appointed Stations, Argument, Arrogance, Blame, Blindness, Cautionary Tale, Challengers, Cloud, Consensus, Consicence, Cruelty, Darkness, Dedication, Differently, Disgrace, Diviine, Encourage, Enmity, Experts and Tyrants, Fortunetellers, Free, Full Moon, Governance, Harshness, Honest Peson, Ill-Tempered, Immune, Impertinence, Imposition, Infidelity To God, Inner Voices, Insurmountable, Intemperance, Knowledge, Last Words, Learn, Learned Positions, Lessons, Majority, Monster, Mystery, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Position, Prejudices, Proud, Pursuit of Truth, Question, Questions, Rage, Reject, Rejected Man, Remedy, Rule, Science, Seek, Shame, Shine, Sources, Status Quo, Steadfast, Struggle, Stumble, Swallow, Systeem, Tame, Test, Throne, Tongue, Tranquil, Travail, True Solutions, Trust, Undaunted, Undermine, Unkindness, Useful, Venomous, Vulnerability, Ways, Well, Wise Voice, Yoke, Young
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In Healing Hymn
In Healing Hymnby Michael DoyleTo be human is to fantasizeMore than can be seen with naked eyesWorried about what ghouls might beAfter death’s last-breath tragedyWe keep our eyes on what is nextAnd all the riddles that do connectCaught in our … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrogance, Bittersweet, Blasphemy, Breath, Burn, Bury, Climb, Conceal, Courage, Cure, Death, Desceration, Die, Dream, Endure, Fadeaway, Faithlessness, Fantasize, Flowers, Fluidity, Ghouls, God, Grave, Grow, Heal, Health and Sickness, Heart, Heartbreak, Heaven's Gate, Hesitation, Human, Hymn, Know, Lives, Lullaby, Measure, Memories, Mortal Love, Mountain, Mourn, Mystic, Naked Eyes, Offense, Pockets of Desolation, Poetry and Poems, Pursue, Question, Remembered, Resurrection, Riddles, Sacred Reason, Save, Sin, Sorrow, Sympathy, Timid Souls, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Treasure, Yesterday
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