Tag Archives: Exist

Thought For the Day: Liberty Is Meaningless Where the Right To Utter One’s Thoughts and Opinions Has Ceased To Exist

Posted on March 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

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First Principles: Kings or Parliaments Could Not Give the Rights Essential To Happiness… We Claim Them From A Higher Source – From the King of Kings, and Lord of All the Earth

Posted on February 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness… We claim them from a higher source — from the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The General Principles On Which the Fathers Achieved Independence Were the General Principles of Christianity

Posted on December 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and … Continue reading →

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Guess It Goes Without Saying

Posted on August 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A poem from a free verse workshop that I am attending tonight: Guess It Goes Without Saying by Michael Doyle I guess it goes without saying In this crazy life we’re playing That You can’t have the light Without the … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: One of the Basic Rules of the Universe Is That Nothing Is Perfect. Without Imperfection, Neither You Nor I Would Exist

Posted on May 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…..Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist” ― Stephen Hawking

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Fragments Beyond Authenticity

Posted on March 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In the words of Bob Dylan, the times are indeed a-changin’ Fragments Beyond Authenticity by Michael Doyle In a world less versed in prophecy Caught up in its whirl of hypocrisy The by-word become feigned authenticity And nothing is scarier … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Universal Peace Only Exists In the Imagination of Visionary Philosophers and Breasts of Benevolent Enthusiasts

Posted on March 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“A universal peace … is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.” – James Madison (1792) Two seemingly contradictory statements. Yet, we find the … Continue reading →

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Metrics of Consideration

Posted on March 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

I believe that one day we will look back at this time of creativity for the human race and see it as a time of near global renaissance. Metrics of Consideration by Michael Doyle Tickled with the details of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Freedom Can Only Exist In the Society of Knowledge

Posted on February 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It is Favorable to liberty. Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights, and where learning is confined to a few people, liberty can be neither equal nor universal.” – … Continue reading →

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Creativity’s Golden Seed

Posted on February 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Coming soon to a mind near yours, the golden opportunity of a lifetime to have reasonable comfort while focusing on writing and photography. More information soon… let the transition begin… Creativity’s Golden Seed by Michael Romani The problem in its … Continue reading →

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