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First Principles: Watch Out For Those Who Cause Divisions and Put Obstacles In Your Way That Are Contrary To the Teaching You Have Learned. Keep Away From Them
“I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them.” – Romans 16:17 NIV
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Tagged Contrary, Division, First Principles, Keep Away, Lean, Obstacle, Romans 16:17 NIV, Teaching, Watch Out
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Thought For the Day: We Must Learn To Honor Excellence In Every Socially Accepted Human Activity, However Humble the Activity, and To Scorn Shoddiness
“We must learn to honor excellence in every socially accepted human activity, however humble the activity, and to scorn shoddiness, however exalted the activity. An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence … Continue reading
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Tagged Activity, Excellence, Honor, Humble, John W. Gardner, Lean, Philoospher, Plumber, Shoddiness, Society, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: We Cannot Learn From One Another Until We Stop Shouting At One Another, Until We Speak Quietly Enough So That Our Words Can Be Heard
“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Deliver, Difficult Years, Discontent, Fever, First Priinciples, Hatred, Heard, Lean, One Another, Posture, Promise, Rhetoric, Richard M. Nixon, Shout, Speak Quietly, Voice, Words
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Positivity In Action
Positivity In Actionby Michael DoyleThis evening, as I took myself on a hike,I put my mind toward what I do and don’t like.Deciding to take the course of satisfaction,I have decided to put positivity into action.I will set new limits … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Adventure, Aspiration, Baby Steps, Comfort Zone, Commitment, Contentent, Darkness, Desintation, Determination, Dignity, Discern, Embrace, Evening, Explore, Fear, Gratitude, Guiding Light, Hasrhness, Hike, Hour, Inspiration, Lean, Lifetime, Light, Limits, Mind, Mindful Attitude, Movtivation, Notoriety, Patterns, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Positivity, Potter's Hand, Purpose, Rearranging, Remember, Right and Wrong, Right Changes, Satisfaction, Service, Shap, Sustance, This and That, Thought, Tribute, Understand, Universe, Unknown, Verse
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Humanity’s Eclipse
Humanity’s Eclipseby Michael DoyleIt seems worthy of recallThat none of us has a crystal ball.We might want to see what’s next,But the best we have is what connects.Will it be humanity’s eclipse – As we fall before a robot apocalypse?Or … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial Intelligence, Artist, Arts, Capable, chatgpt, Choice, Complicity, Connect, Creative, Crystal Bal, Dues, Eclipse, Efficient, Electricity, Embrace, Enchancement, Exist, Fate, Fear, Feeling, Fire, Fools, Future, Humanity, Indirect, Indulge, Inevitable, Lean, Luddites, Machine, Mankind, Messiness, Mistake, Next, Nurture, Open Doors, Organic Goo, Partners, Perfect, Poetry and Poems, Predictive Alogorithms, Primordial Ooze, Replace, Replacement, Resist, Robot Apocalypse, Superlative, Technology, Tools, Wall, Wayside, Writer, Writing
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First Principles: There Is No Art Which Government Sooner Learns of Another Than That of Draining Money From the Pockets of the People
“There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” – Adam Smith
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Tagged Adam Smith, Art, Drain, First Principles, Government, Lean, Money, Pockets, The People
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Saying Nothing In Times of Troubles
Saying Nothing In Times of Troublesby Michael DoyleThe only certainty is it doublesTo be silent in times of troublesAt least, Irish history revealsHow false belief in God stealsThe soul of a broken nationThat is riveting in its salvationThat never quite … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Atrocity, Blind World, Blood, Broken Nation, Certainty, Chance, Circumstance, Collective Ideoloy, Complexity, Confession, Confident, Conflict, Confusion, Culture's Obsession, Curse, Discern, Disillusion, Divided Nation, Doubles, End, Eye For Eye, Feeling, Fight, Friends, God, Healing, Heroes, History, Holy Ghost, Individual Responsibility, Irish History, Lack of Forgiveness, Lean, Lessons, Lie, Living Novel, Mankind, Misdeed, Moral Conflict, Mud, Mystery, Numb, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Procession, Pure Drama, Salvation, Say Nothing, Scenes, Silent, Simplicity, Soul, Times of Troubles, Transcend, Trauma, Travesty, Truth, Villains, Why, Wrong, Wrong Convictions
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To Touch Your Shadow
To Touch Your Shadowby Michael DoyleThrough physical, we find affirmationIn this, we have signaled confirmationWrapped in layers of living securityOur love makes our sense of libertyThese are the rules we agreeably play byFinding our truths by which we’ll stay byWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Affections, Affirmation, Afraid, Agreements, Beating, Best Plans, Break My Heart, Build, Confirmation, Connection, Drink, Eternity, Eyes, Fear, Felt, Freed, Gentle and Light, God, Grow, Hint, Insight, Know, Layers, Lean, Learn To Slow, Liberty, Love, Made, Meant, Move Too Fast, Music, My Heart, Needs, New Start, Ocean of Love, Physical, Play By, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Right Direction, Rule, Security, Signal, Sorrow, Stay By, Stayed, Stretch, Toast the Years, Touch, Touch By Touch, Touch Your Shadow, Truths, Walk, Your Shadow
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