Tag Archives: Common Sense

Thought For the Day: The Number of College Degrees Is Not Nearly As Important As How Well Students Develop Cognitive Skills, Such As Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Ability

“Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.” … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Education Perverts the Mind Since We Are Directly Opposing the Natural Development of Our Mind By Obtaining Ideas First and Observations Last

“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among … Continue reading

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New Life Reborn

New Life Rebornby Michael DoyleThe new life rebornKnows its miseryCommon sense would mournThis loss of such historyAs a life lived in painThere are questions that strainA thousand cuts into our moralityAre the price of approaching immortalityLike pawns on chessboard gamesWe … Continue reading

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First Principles: This Constitution Is the Most Free One, and By Far the Best, Now Existing On the Earth

“…that the King with and by the authority of parliament, is able to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to limit and bind the crown, and the descent, limitation, inheritance and government thereof” is founded on the principles of liberty and … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: The Judeo-Christian Principles Upon Which Our Country Was Founded Teach Us To Be Tolerant and Compassionate, But They Don’t Tell Us To Abandon Common Sense

“The Judeo-Christian principles upon which our country was founded teach us to be tolerant and compassionate, but they don’t tell us to abandon common sense. If we hope to change this corrosive course, we have to start by acknowledging a … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Cause of America Is In A Great Measure the Cause of All Mankind

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

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Thought For the Day: Nothing Astonishes Men So Much As Common Sense and Plain Dealing

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882

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First Principles: The Cause of America Is In A Great Measure the Cause of All Mankind

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” – Thomas Paine (1776)

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Shadowboxing

Shadowboxingby Michael DoyleShadowboxing with my egoHiding from whispers of an echoWhen cleansing of sin is neededAnd common sense is not heededThere are dangers in complexityRaw feelings rough in their simplicityI just need to hold on to the sunriseVisions that bleed … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Cause of America Is In A Great Measure the Cause of All Mankind

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

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