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Dependence
Dependenceby Michael DoyleWhen the days are darkestThat’s when we need your lightKeeping hope alive when we’re saddestYou bring morning to our nightKeeping hope there and aliveYou are the source by which we surviveWalking beside us in our humanityAnd loving us … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Baptism, Believe, Celebration, Conceive, Darkest, Days, Depend, Dependence, Destination, Forgiven, Given, God, Hope, Humanity, Journey, Light, Morning, Night, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Saddest, Survive, Vanity
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Moments That Bring Gratitude
Moments That Bring Gratitudeby Michael DoyleThere are moments that bring gratitudeThat we must face with the right attitudeA first basis needed, a case made then pleadedThere is the voice of God that must be heededThese are the gifts that keep … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Admiration, Adoration, Authority, Best Friend, Bottom of the Ninth, Calling, Case, Christ, Cultivation, Depend, Doubt, Evidence, Faithfully, First Basis, Gifts, God's Love, God's Purposes, Gratitude, Interconnection, Interpretation, Life of Faith, Lovers of God, Moments, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Purity, Relational, Relevance, Right Attitude, Shepherd, Special Plan, Translation, True Living, Voice of God
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In the Face of Your Holiness
In the Face of Your Holinessby Michael DoyleIn the face of your holinessI acknowledge my sinKnowing your faithfulness and depending on thisRolling like a stone from tomb againAll of my burdens, you carryIn the reliance that you will not varyIn … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Acknowledge, Bad Jokes, Burden, Carry, Commands, Condition, Contrition, Depend, Depending, Devotion, Dropped Balls, Face, Faithfulness, Friend, Generations, Godly Advice, Heart, Heavenly Host, Holiness, Light, Love, Mask, Matters, Matters Most, Most, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pure, Reliance, Roll, Seriousness, Sin, Soul, Stone, Task, Tomb, Vary, Walk Instead, Ways of Love
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Thought For the Day: What You Can Imagine Depends On What You Know
“What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.” – Daniel C. Dennett
The Knife Slipped In
The Knife Slipped In by Michael DoyleWith the surrender of human freedomThe therapeutic class becomes a fiefdomEach criminal a victim of circumstanceSimply put they have become marionettes of happenstanceThose meant to help come to equally defendWith the incomes and career … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Academic Elite, Arguments, Asian-American Achievement, Bereavement, Blame, Blind Eye, Bureaucratic Price, Citizens, Civil Society Understood, Colorless Technocrats, Conditions, Constantly Forgiving, Criminal, Daily Stresses of Living, Defend, Depend, Endless Cycle, Fate, Fault, Fiefdom, Government, Happenstance, Help, Human Freedom, Incomes and Career, Justification, Knife, Lawless Conensus, Marionettes, Mask, Mentality, Mother, Partisan, Pass, Passivity, Permanent Wards, Pessimism, Philosophical Decomposition, Poetry and Poems, Politicians, Reactivsm, Receptivity, Reduced to Subjets, Removed, Responsibility, Risk and Liberty, Role, Self-Confessed, Self-Interest, Self-Serving, Serfs, Simple Advice, Slipped, Speech and Freedom, Spooned Out Good, Surrender, Therapeutic Class, Towards, Underclass, Vapid Rationalization, Victim of Circumstance, Victimhood, View, Virtual Cuckoo's Nest, Virtue, Virtue Signaling, Welfare State, Will
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First Principles: To Maintain the Ascendancy of the Constitution Over the Lawmaking Majority Is the Great and Essential Point On Which the Success of the American System Must Depend
“To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the … Continue reading
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Tagged American System, Ascendency, Constitution, Depend, Essential, First Principles, Great, Influence, John C. Calhoun, Lawmaking Majoriy, Laws, Maintain, Necessary Consequence, Patronage, Point, Preserve, Success, Supercede, Supersede the Laws, Will of the Executive
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First Principles: The Most Important Consequence of Marriage Is That the Husband and Wife Become In Law Only One Person
“The most important consequence of marriage is, that the husband and the wife become in law only one person… Upon this principle of union, almost all the other legal consequences of marriage depend. This principle, sublime and refined, deserves to … Continue reading
Na/GloPoWriMo #8: The Jester’s Crown
Na/GloPoWriMo #8: The Jester’s Crownby Michael DoyleThis poem is for all who gatheredThat might have been better tarred and featheredFor all of those unfazed by the many stormsThat make up all of life’s normsIn the beginning, I knew there’d be … Continue reading
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Tagged All Those, Amply, An End, Been Better, Cold, Complaints, Complete, Depend, Family, Far Too Few, Friend, Gathered, Given, Good Cheer, Happier Still, Happily, Hard, Heaven, Helped To Pass the Time, Hoe-down, In the Beginning, Jester's Crown, Lend, Life, Mine, Na/GloPoWriMo, Never Mend, None Are Too Serious, Norms, One more Dance, Or Do, Payback, Play This Card, Poem, Poetry and Poems, Pouring, Rife, Silent Life, Simple Man's, Somebody, Someone, Spend My Moments, Storms, Tarred and Feathered, The In-Between, Time, Toasted, Unfazed, Vagabond's Company
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First Principles: The Judicial Branch May Truly Be Said To Have Neither Force Nor Will, But Merely Judgment and Must Ultimately Depend On the Aid of the Executive Arm Even For the Efficacy of Its Judgments
“[The judicial branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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Tagged Aid, Alexander Hamilton, Depend, Efficacy, Executive Arm, First Principles, Force, Judgment, Judgments, Judicial Branch, Will
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