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Thought For the Day: Care of Human Life and Happiness and Not Their Destruction Is the First and Only Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Care, Destruction, First, Good, Government, Happiness, Human Life, Object, Only, Thomas Jefferson, Thought For the Day
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Angel Falls (Recalls)
There’s a lot of power in the water that flows on this planet of ours. Like the sun .. but a lot cooler.. it is a bringer of both life and destruction…. Angel Falls (Recalls) by Michael Romani Angel Falls … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel Falls, Backbone, Beauty, Chemistry, Complexity, Consistent, Crumble, Cycle, Death, Destruction, Earth, Echo, Electric, Energy, Ethereal, Flow, Force, Found, Fright, Heat, Hour, Hydrothermal, Island, Kinetic, Ledge, Life, Lightning, Loop, Mystery, Newborn, Ocean, Organic, Peak, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Power, Primordial, Rock, Sky, Soul, Soup, Stardust, Storm, Strife, Sun, Surge, Synergy, System, Warm, Water
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Webster’s Calling
At one time, Noah Webster called for a unifying national language of American English. On learning that the English were buying his dictionary, he decided instead it was a better thing to recognize that English is English with more in … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Authority, Civility, Clarity, Destruction, Dictionary, Dilect, Dissertation, Effort, Elite, English, Expressive, Independence, Linguist, National Language, Original Construction, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Rules, Standard, Unity, Webster, Words
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First Principles: Human Life From First Stirring In the Womb to Its Close Is Protected By the Common Law
“With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful, Begins, Close, Commencement, Common Law, Consistent, Danger, Destruction, First Prinicples, Human Life, Infant, James Wilson, Lectures On Law, Life, Protected, Sir, Undeviating, Violence, Womb
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A Prayer For the Healing
No use whining about life’s complications really, right? So let me just encourage everyone to love when they can and cry when you feel it’s needed. Keep your hearts open and find that bit of truth that works to make … Continue reading
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Tagged Angst, Band-Aid, Believe, Capacity, Complicate, Confluence, Construct, Control, Cry, Dark Night, Desist, Destruction, Devotion, Diet, Emotion, Encourage, Epidemic, Fear, Feeling Good, Frustrate, God's Eyes, Harm, Heal, Hurt, Influence, Intelligence, Joke, Know, Love, Made, More, Mother's Kiss, Ocean, Pain, Past, Photograph, Piece, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pray, Precious, Reveal, Shore, Surrender, Tender, Thoughts, Tortured Soul, Tough, True Strength, Trust, Truth, Western, World
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Thought For the Day:
“Love never claims, it ever gives.” – Mohandas K Ghandi
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Tagged Claims, Destruction, Give, Hate, Life, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Resent, Revenge, Suffer, Thought For the Day
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The Truth of the Present
It’s so easy to believe these are the bad ole days as modern day snake oil salesmen tell us of how horrible things are and that they’re bound to get worse. But is that true? Or, is the doom … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Accountable, Age, al-Qeada, Armada, Asymmetry, Baton, Begun, Brave, Broken, Bungle, Calamity, Capable, Catastrophe, Cause, Cave, Change, Chicken Little, Choice, Coca Cola, Complicity, Conspire, Data Mine, Destruction, Devil, Doom and Gloom, Foothold, Gain, Goat, God, Gunpowder, History, Humanity, Imprint, Innocence, Kings, Law of the Jungle, Legacy, Living History, Logic Bomb, Manage, Manipulate, Mankind, Mery, Motivation, Mutual Destruction, Mystery, Nuclear, Obesity, One, Oppenheimer, Optimism, Orchestrate, Pages, Pain, Peace, People, Pessimism, Pestilence, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Present, Prevail, Rare, Save, Self Defeat, Sown, Spoken, Starvation Line, Sugar, Terrorism, Tire, Tragedy, True Peace, Truth, Unity, Vanity, Veil, War, World
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Hunting Himmler – A Found Poem
Milkwood’s Poem A Day #6 is the Found Poem form and has as its word prompt “gravity”. A found poem is quite literally that. Scanning through the written material of others a little snatch of verbiage here and there catch’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Allies, Chaos, Checkpoint, Collaborate, Conspiracy, Cruel, Cyanide, Defeat, Destruction, Devil, Disguise, Dr. Wells, Due, Elbe, Escape, Found Poem, German, Henrich Himmler, History, Hitler, Holocaust, Humanity, Identity, Industrial, Justice, Legacy, Mercedes Benz, Mistake, Nazi Germany, Newsreel, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prisoner of War, Prussic Acid, Refugees, Reich, Served, Sinister, Society, Villans
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First Principles: Care of Human Life and Happiness Is the Only Legitimate Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1809)
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Tagged Care, Destruction, First Principles, Good, Government, Happiness, Human Life, Legitimate, Thomas Jefferson
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