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Thought For the Day: I Fear To See the Consequences of the Court’s Practice of Substituting Its Own Concepts of Decency and Fundamental Justice For the Language of the Bill of Rights
“In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill of Rights, Concept, Consequences, Decency, Departure, Devices, Enforce, Interpret, Judgment, Justice, Justice Hugo L. Black, Language, Liberty, Lose, Nation, Practices, Protection, Purposes, Respect, Substitute, The People, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Thought Is the Blossom; Language the Bud; Action the Fruit Behind It
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Tagged Action, Blossom, Bud, Fruit, Language, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thought, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: If You Talk To A Man In A Language He Understands, That Goes To His Head. If You Talk To Him In His Language, That Goes To His Heart
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
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Tagged Head, Heart, Language, Man, Nelson Mandela, Talk, Thought For the Day, Understand
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Thought For the Day: Language Is Not An Abstract Construction of the Learned, Or of Dictionary Makers, But Is Something Arising Out of…Long Generations of Humanity
“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract Construction, Affections, Arise, Bases, Dictionary Makers, Ground, Humanity, Joys, Language, Learned, Long Generations, Needs, Noah Webster, Tastes, Thought For the Day, Ties, Work
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Thought For the Day: However Well Equipped Our Language, It Can Never Be Forearmed Against All Possible Cases That May Arise and Call For Description: Fact Is Richer Than Diction
“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.” – J.L. Austin, philosopher of language (28 Mar 1911-1960)
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Tagged Arise, Call, Description, Diction, Equip, Fact Is Richer, Forearmed, J.L. Austin, Language, Possible Cases, Thought For the Day
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An Incident of Oxford Compilation
An Incident of Oxford Compilationby Michael DoyleIn my mind gathered so silentlyI pray against evil so vigilantlyIn the darkness of a blind alleyLost among the madmen in the galleryThough words come at me namedLanguage itself will not be tamedIt grows … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreed, Alley, Approach, Best Laid Plans, Capability, Cast, Change, Charade, Clear, Compilation, Contrary, Crumble, Darkness, Dictionary, Eloquent, Encroach, English Language, English Tongue, Gallery, Incident, Known, Lairds, Language, Lexicon, Linguist, Madmen, Mind, Nation, Need, Nuance, Oxford, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Proctor, Propriety, Quotation, Refine, Rubicon, Search, Shown, Silent, Sketches, Study, Supplication, Symbols, Tamed, Tumble, Turn, Vigilant, Volumes, Wise Men, Words
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On Being Indigenous In the 21st Century
On Being Indigenous In the 21st Centuryby Michael DoyleIn this world of the modern ageWhen most wish to appear a wise sageIt is pithy to posture and sayIn that pseudo-intellectual wayThat the indigenous follow Mother Nature’s wayThough if you were … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Amazonia, America, Ask Us, Blame, Boundaries, China, Coffee, Community, Continuity, Corrupt, Cultivation, Definition, Desire, Dignity, Distinguished, Diversity, DNA, Empires, Encode, Endure, Europe, Exclusion, Explanation, Extremes, Family, Finger Pointing, Flags, Forfeit, Grit, Havoc, Heads, History, Identity, Inclusion, Indigenous, Knowing, Language, Less, Limited, Marginalized, Modern Age, Modern Life, Modern World, Mother Nature, Native Tongues, New Nation, Peoples, Percaption, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Posture, Poverty, Power, Pseudo-Intellectual, Sage, Same, Save, Skill, Slash and Burn, Soul, Sovereignty, Stain, Strife, Surrender, Symbolic, Teeth, Thinking, Tribes, Vulnerability, Wise, World War Two
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Last Chance
Life goes on despite having someone mouth off doesn’t it? Last Chance by Michael Doyle Tell me now, Do you have the cognizance That you might somehow Understand the fruits of consequence And when God speaks to you Dropped like … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowledging Your Lies, Agitation, Before It's Too Late, Calling Me Names, Cease and Desist, Cognizance, Consequence, Created Your Stardom, Display, Easy To Understand, Enough of Your Lies, Failed the Test, Forget, Former Friend, God Speaks, Greedy, Have Your Confession Recordd, Hurting Others, I Know Who You Are, I Won't Allow It To Go On, Insanity, Instead of Lies, Known By God, Lame, Language, Last Chance, Life, Life Goes On, Love, Make Your Own Path, Mouth Off, Not A Game, One Plus One, Or Tell It To the Judge, Own Hand, Photograph, Please Stop, Poem, Poetry, Politely, Prayed For you, Realize, Revealed, Seeds, Shown, Sign Your Name, Somehow, Sown, Stayed For you, Stone Cold, Stop Pretending, Tell Me, Tell Truth, Ton of Bricks, True Self, Understand, Use, Vanity, Walking Right Over Me, Widely Known, You Lose, You On Record, You're to Blame, You've Gone Too far, Your Games, Your Indiscretions
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Thought For the Day: If Thoughts Can Corrupt Language, Language Can Also Corrupt Thoughts
“If thoughts can corrupt language, language can also corrupt thoughts.” – George Orwell Just say, no! No to the thought police who want to demand we reshape our language to conform to their ideology. That is a sure sign … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Usage, Corrupt, George Orwell, Imitation, Language, Spread, Thought, Thought For the Day, Tradition
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