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Thought For the Day: The Real Index of Civilization Is When People Are Kinder Than They Need To Be
“The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.” – Louis de Bernieres, novelist (b. 8 Dec 1954)
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Tagged Civilization, Index, Kinder, Louis de Bernieres, Need To Be, People, Real, Thought For the Day
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In Reverence For Life
In Reverence For Lifeby Michael DoyleFrom out of his humble life and thoughtA reverence for all life was truly soughtDoing his duty to a higher authoritySeeking the best for all of sacred humanityThe human spirit displayed at its bestWhen it … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Adversity, Albert Schweitzer, All of Life, All Things Have A Purpose, Approach, Awe, Bach, Betrayal, Big Business, Church, Civilization, Complete Obedience, Cultivation, Death, Deference, Devastation, Discern, Distinct, Divine, Duty, End of Days, Eschatology, Fails, Familiar, Free Conscience, French, Future, Gentleman, German, Global Security, Golden Rule, Heed, Higher Authority, History, Human Spirit, Humanity, Humble, International Friendship Day, Jesus, Life, Love, Mankind, Material Prosperity, Medical Missionary, Music, Need, Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Bomb, Overpowering, Peace, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Promises of Prosperity, Recall, Respect, Reverence, Right, Right Intention, Sacred, Savage War, Scholar, Seek, Tears, Technology, Test, Theology, Thought, Tremble, True Divinity, Vanity, War's End, World War I, World War Two
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The Fall of Constantinople
Though largely symbolic, the fall of Constantinople brought ruin to a significant part of Europe by the hand of the Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453, after siege of less than two months. The Fall of Constantinople by Michael Doyle … Continue reading
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Tagged Alliance, Annals, Arrows, Black Day, Broken, Centuries, Christian Nations, Christians, Civilization, Confrontation, Conquer, Constantinople, Crush, Czech, Destiny, East, Enemy, Eternal, Europe, Fall, Fall of Constantinople, Fate, Fell, Ferdinand, Fight, Hapsburg, Hatred, Hungary, Infamy, Janissaries, May 29 1453, Mercenary, Millions, Ottoman Empire, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pragmatism, Protestants, Reformation, Reign, Rome, Sacred, Siege, Subject, Subjugation, Suliman I, Sultan, Symbolic, Throne, Treaty, Unleashed
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Thought For the Day: Farmers Are the Founders of Civilization
“Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.” – Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
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Tagged Arts, Begin, Civilization, Cultivation, Daniel Webster, Earth, Farmers, Follow, Founders, Labor, Mankind, Most Important, Thought For the Day, Tillage
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Woven Into A Delicate Tapestry
Faith and reason must work in combination with one another to approach the balance necessary to navigate the life of individuals and of nations around the world. Woven Into A Delicate Tapestery by Michael Doyle Woven into a most delicate … Continue reading
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Tagged Balance, Blind, Bloody, Capricious, Church, Civilization, Combination, Creativity, Deity, Delicate, Deny, Diversity, Era, Evidence, Exceed, Faith, Freedom, God, Holy Kingdom, Incomplete, Inculcate, Known, Liberty, Life, Limits, Mankind, Mastery, Modernism, Monotheism, Navigate, Need, Pantheism, Path, Pathology, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Psychology, Rational, Realization, Reason, Record, Reverent, Roots, Seeds, Self-Evident, Struggle, Tapestry, Theology, Truth, Twentieth Century, University, Wisdom, Woven, Youth
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Dragged Into the Streets
Thinking a lot on education and civilization and why and how there seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to how each is allegedly to work out. Fairly serious stuff and yet how can a person not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Alienation, Ancient, Avoid, Backside, Bad Advice, Belong, Bowl, Capable, Chase, Civility, Civilization, Confusion, Convenience, Convenient, Cruelty, Curious, Darkness, Days, Deal, Desire, Different, Done, Doubt, Drag, Drink, Education, Fish, Flag, Gin, God, Good, Happy, Head, Humor, Interest, Lazy, Life, Luck, Manage, Mentally, Miserable, Monkeys, Moral Courage, Mortals, New Life, None, Now, Ought, Photograph, Pit, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Problems, Puzzles, Raps, Reverent, Run Away, Sail, Set Out, Sink, Sit, Solemn, Somehow, Sought, Street, Struck, Sun, Taught, Tell Me, Then, Think, Thought, Time, Trappings, Tree, Turn, Tutor, Unteachable, Want, Wince, Wish, Wonder, Workings, Wrong, You
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The Wolf Knows Its Howl
Enforced surveillance and censorship of the creative mind, particularly by oppressive government is nothing short of a crime against humanity. The Wolf Knows Its Howl by Michael Doyle When a writer must be brave To memorize just to save The … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Authority, Bitterness, Brave, Call, Censorship, Choke, Civilization, Conscience, Control, Creative Mind, Crevice, Crime Against Humanity, Cry, Culture, Dark, Days, Die, Education, Eradication, Falls, Fight, Free, God, Heart, Howl, Ink, Know, Labor, Light, Live, Mankind, Memorize, Night, Opportunism, Oppression, Paper, Pessimism, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Poisoned Tongue, Power, Right, Save, Scrap, Shadow, Sheep, Sleep, Start, Stifle, Surveillance, Truth, Undertaking, Unmask, Watch, Winter, Wolf, Words, World, Writer
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A Nation In Need of Unity
In the last of this series, American history continues through the present: A Nation In Need of Unity by Michael Doyle George H. Bush struggled under Reagan’s shadow With his pedigree and skills he led well as most know It … Continue reading
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Tagged 1991, Age of Fracture, American History, Backward, Better, Challenge, Change, Children, Chinese Symbol, Choices, Civilization, Clash, Cold War, Commonality, Confidence, Containment Doctrine, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Deficits, Disaffection, Discontent, Disruption, Dread, Economics, End of History, Exceptional Now, Extricate, Focus, Forwaard, Fuction, Fukayama, Future, George H Bush, Germany, Give, Global Security, Hope, Hour, Humility, Huntington, Inspiration, Institutions, Invasion, Iraq, Know, Kuwait, Lesson, Liberal Democracy, Malcontent, Nation, National Debt, Need, New World Order, Operation Desert Storm, Pandemic, Past, Pedigree, Peril, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prudence, Reagan, Rearrange, Rehablitation, Reintegration, Rogue States, Shadow, Sink, Sovereign, Soviet Empire, Strife, Take, Terrorism, Thug, Tiananmen Square, Together, Toward, Trillions, Unity, Unsustainable, Victory, Voices, Watch
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Second Sight of the Garden of Earthly Delight
Day 6 of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! The prompt is to write an ekphrastic poem based on Hieronymous Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delight. I elected to take the point of view of the artist or perhaps someone who is familiar with the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Allegory, Blame, Center Frame, Civility, Civilization, Command, Consideraton, Contempation, Corruption, Cost, Damnation, Depravity, Desire, Disruption, Earth, Ekphrastic, Fate, Finger, Flee, Flesh, Free Will, God, Heaven, Holy Trinity, Humanity, Judge, Know, Left, Life, Light, Linger, Lost, Lust, Moral Warning, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Noble Savage, Panorama, Paradise Lost, Peril, Photograph, Piety, Playground, Plreasure, Poem, Poety, Reap, Reflect, Remorse, Revel, Revelation, Right, Salvation, Second Sight, Secret, Sensual, Serenity, Shun, Sin, Succumb, Temptation, The Garden of Earthly Delight, Tiara, Trap, Treasure, Trinity, Triptych, Turn, Vanity, Word
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