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Thought For the Day: It Is the Province of Knowledge To Speak, and It Is the Privilege of Wisdom To Listen

Posted on February 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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First Principles: Ignorance More Frequently Begets Confidence Than Does Knowledge

Posted on February 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” – Charles Darwin, naturalist and author (12 Feb 1809-1882)

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Just Beyond Possible

Posted on January 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Just Beyond Possibleby Michael DoyleHowever much it seems to be implausibleThe risk is taken to push beyond probableThough sometimes this makes you culpableAt times, you must push just beyond possibleIt is for the good of every profitable companyThat we risk … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Saddest Aspect of Life Right Now Is That Science Gathers Knowledge Faster Than Society Gathers Wisdom

Posted on January 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.– Isaac Asimov

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Thought For the Day: For Attractive Lips, Speak Words of Kindness. For Lovely Eyes, Seek Out the Good In People. For A Slim Figure, Share Your Food With the Hungry

Posted on January 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Liberty Cannot Be Preserved Without A General Knowledge Among the People, Who Have A Right…To Knowledge

Posted on November 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to … Continue reading →

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Like Souls Rising From the Dead

Posted on November 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Like Souls Rising From the Deadby Michael DoyleHidden symbols press the conscienceAnd then denies the separation of scienceFrom the spirituality of all things trueThis is independent of a fearful point of viewMorals only tend to get in the wayOf moments … Continue reading →

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The Rejected Man Stumbles

Posted on October 27, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The Rejected Man Stumblesby Michael DoyleThe rejected man stumbles back into the darknessFilled as he has become by this life’s harshnessHe had been helpful and knowledgeable in his waysAnd though ill-tempered, he was useful in his daysScience, too, is useful … Continue reading →

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Persistence

Posted on October 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Persistenceby Michael DoyleWe create our locked prisons by choiceWhere our creatures find their voiceThe point of origins might be our schoolOr wherever we learned life’s rulesWindow shopping as we were thenPursuing our visions and our sinsPaying our price as we … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Obstacle To Discovering the Shape of the Earth, the Continents, and the Oceans Was Not Ignorance But the Illusion of Knowledge

Posted on October 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.” -Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1 Oct 1914-2004)

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