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Thought For the Day: Hear One Side and You Will Be In the Dark. Hear Both and All Will Be Clear

“Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.” – Lord Chesterfield

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On Turning 17

On Turning 17by Michael DoyleThe days crawl slowly on one by oneAnd your birthday is past and doneI am still thinking on what it meansThat my baby girl has turned seventeenWasn’t it only just yesterdayThat you entered this world’s wayLaying … Continue reading

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Thought for the Day: If You Don’t Love Me, It Does Not Matter, Anyway I Can Love For Both of Us

“If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.” -Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), novelist (23 Jan 1783-1842)

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Thought For the Day: If Any Man Seeks For Greatness, Let Him Forget Greatness and Ask For Truth, and He Will Find Both

“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.” – Horace Mann, educational reformer (4 May 1796-1859)

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Thought For the Day: The Meeting of Two Personalities Is Like the Contact of Two Chemical Substances: If There Is Any Reaction, Both Are Transformed

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung, psychiatrist (26 Jul 1875-1961)

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First Principles: Far From Being Rivals or Enemies, Religion and Law Are Twin Sisters, Friends, and Mutual Assistants

“Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other. The divine law, as discovered by reason and the moral sense, forms an essential part of … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: People Haunted By the Purposelessness of Their Lives Try To Find A New Content Not Only By Dedicating Themselves To A Holy Cause But Also Nursing A Fanatical Grievance

 “Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a … Continue reading

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Twist of the Kissed

Halloween Poem #14 (written on 10/13/2019 so really number 13.. how unlucky that I fell behind on posting like that….or as my little girls say.. “Or, did I?”) https://flic.kr/p/t7U76U Twist of the Kissed by Michael Romani We prize the things … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: You Can Have Results or Excuses. Not Both.

You can have results or excuses. Not both.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger    

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Thought For the Day: Aim At Heaven and Earth Will Be Thrown In

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”  – C. S. Lewis      

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