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Lessons of Sadie Hawkins
Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: Start By Doing What’s Necessary; Then Do What’s Possible; and Suddenly You Are Doing the Impossible
“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi
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Tagged Doing, Francis of Assisi, Impossible, Necessary, Possible, Start, Sudden, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The Difference Between the Impossible and the Possible Lies In A Person’s Determination
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
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Tagged Between, Determination, Difference, Impossible, Person, Possible, Thought For the Day, Tommy Lasorda
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Our Finest Hour
At this stage of American history, we advanced onto the world stage having no real choice but to fight a war on multiple fronts in World War II and rather self consciously becoming a, if not the, world leader in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, 1940, Accommodation, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Yamamoto, Air Craft Carrier, All-American, Allied Commander, Allies, America, American History, American Pride, Appeasement, Atom Bomb, Back, Battle, Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Beast, Berlin, Blitzkrieg, Break, Brunt, Capacity, China, Christian Civilization, City, Conflagration, Consideration, Converge, Countries, D-Day, Dead, Death Camps, Decision, Decisive, Decisively, Defeaat, Demoralize, Destructive, Devour, Dictator, Die, Direction, Domination, Drums, Dwight Eisenhower, Dynamics, Emperor, Endure, Engage, Expansion, FDR, Finest, Finest Hour, Fire Side Chat, Fourth, Free World, Freedom, General MacArthur, Germany, Halt, Hard Fought, Harry S Truman, Heart, Hiroshima, History, Hitler, Horror, Hour, Impossible, Industrial Ability, Infamy, Institution, Internal, International, Internationalist, Isolationist, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Jewish, June, Knockout Blow, Know, Last, Lend Lease Act, Luftwaffe, Manhattan Project, Mantle of Leadership, Materials, Merge, Might, Nagasaki, Nation, Navy, Nazi, Neutrality, Non-Aggression Pact, Normandy, North Atlantic, Obligations, Occupy, Okinawa, Opinion Poll, Organic, Pacific, Pacific Fleet, Paris, Past, Pearl Harbor, Permanent Sense, Philippines, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, Predictability, Prinicples, Priority, Productivity, Reality, Revelation, Royal Air Force, Ruins, Russians, Secret, Secure, Self Conscious, Shadow, Shoulders, Shudder, Siege, Skies, Smoulder, Soviet Union, Stalin, Standing, Standing Army, Strategic, Stubborn, Supplies, Surrender, Sustain, Symbolic, Territorial Aggression, Thug, Treaty of Versailles, Turning Point, Two Prong, Typhoon of Steel, Unstoppable, Vain, VE Day, Victory, War, Will, Win, Winston Churchill, World, World Affairs, World Leader, World War II, Wrong
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Leaving Yesterdays Behind
What matters profit if it has cost your soul? Leaving Yesterdays Behind by Michael Doyle What it is that seems fit Is often enough a matter Devoted entirely to profit All other arguments shatter The implication is clear That neither … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Argument, Behind, Blame, Call, Capable, Convince, Cost, Cut Quick, Depth, Devote, Empty, Fence, Fit, Full Pocket, Implication, Impossible, Indication, Inevitable, Insanity, Leave, Lost, Love of Money, Made, Matter, Mend, Mind, Mistake, Money, Morality, Mutual, Name, Near, Notoriety, Obstacle, Payment, Photograph, Pirate, Place At the Table, Plunder, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Purchase, Quality, Reason, Sail, Scratch, Secret Garden, Shade, Shame, Shatter, Soul, Surface, Tend, Vanity, Vindication, Yesterday
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First Principles: Our Laws and Our Institutions Are Based On and Embody Christian Teachings
“Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of The Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: All That Is Impossible Remains To Be Accomplished
“All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.” – Jules Verne
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Tagged Accomplish, All, Impossible, Jules Verne, Remain, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Americans Combine Christianity and Liberty So Intimately That It Is Impossible to Conceive One Without the Other
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans, Christianity, Conceive, First Principles, Fith, Ideas, Impossible, Intimate, Liberty, Mind, Morality
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Thought For the Day: Idleness, Like Kisses, Must Be Stolen To Be Sweet
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. … Continue reading
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Tagged Exhausting, Fun, Idle, Idleness, Impossible, Jerome K Jerome, Kisses, Nothing, Occupation, Sweet, Thought For the Day, Wasting Time, Work
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Catch & Release
Am I alone in seeing that the world has its moments of understated brilliance? Catch and Release by Michael Romani Writing to write, so it seems Is often the child of unknown dreams Miscast, recanted or fully embraced The soul … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Annoucement, Ashes, Blink, Blossom, Brilliance, Catch, Child, Contrast, Crowd, Days, Deadpan, Deoor, Desire, Discipline, Disgrace, Dwell, Element, Embrace, Fire, Fisherman, Freeze Frame, Glory, Human Being, Impossible, Inhumanity, Lessons, Light, Limbo, Loop, Loud, Many, Miscast, Nights, One, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Physics, Pieces, Poem, Poetry, Pronounce, Reality, Recant, Reflect, Release, Resemble, Resiliance, Scripture, Shaolin Fighter, Shatter, Silence, Singular, Skies, Soul, Stoop, Story, Super Power, Survivor, Teach, Truth, Typewriter, Unknown Dreams, War, Whisper, Write, Writer
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