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Facing Death Boldly
Facing Death Boldlyby Michael DoyleFacing death is one thingWatching the death of your menThat hurts more than anythingIt burns like the second mortal sinCold and hungry in the nightA target was seen in every lightYou never forget the death seenIt … Continue reading
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Tagged Advance, Best Nights, Bold, Breaking Point, Breath, Burn, Cold and Hungry, Death, Dreamless, Emotional Landmines, Face, Forgot, Fought, France, Human Being, Hurt, Images, Inching, Light, Man, Memories, Nivht, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Seamless, Second Mortal Sin, Seen, Target, Tears, Traces, Useless, War, Watch, Your Men
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Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Measure of A Man Is Not Where He Stands In Moments of Comfort and Convenience, But Where He Stands At Times of Challenge and Controversy
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Tagged Challenge, Comfort, Controversy, Convenience, Lltimate, Man, Martin Luther King Jr., Measure, Stand, Thought For the Day
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In the Snows of France
In the Snows of Franceby Michael DoyleDoc was a medicRunning from hole to holeThere wasn’t a foxWho didn’t know his soulThe Germans kept comingWith machine guns drummingSounding off in the darkest nightThe 101st prayed for the morning lightA little drip … Continue reading
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Tagged 101st Airborne, Amaze, Battle, Brave, Company, Dead Men, Doc, Dreams, End, Falling Snow, Foxhole, France, Friends, Grace, Half-Alive, Hard Rain, Hold On, Hope, Kill and Die, Know, Lucky, Machine Guns, Man, Medic, Medics, Morning, Morphine, Mortar Rounds, Night, Numbered Days, On the Move, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Rememver, Secret, Shelling, Snow, Soul, Surgeon, Survive, The Boys, Virgin, Wounded, Young Man
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First Principles: In Questions of Power, Then, Let No More Be Heard of Confidence In Man, But Bind Him Down From Mischief By the Chains of the Constitution
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1798)
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Tagged Bind, Chians, Confidence, Constitution, First Principles, Man, Mischief, Power, Question, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Education Without Values, As Useful As It Is, Seems Rather To Make Man A More Clever Devil
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” – C.S. Lewis
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, Clever, Devil, Education, Man, Thought For the Day, Useful, Value
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To Make A Man Invincible
To Make A Man Invincibleby Michael DoyleYou know that a moon full of madnessAnd a heart filled with sadnessAin’t never done any man no goodFrom that gun in your handIt seems you just might understandYour eyes say it is understoodRiding … Continue reading
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Tagged Choices, Dead, Draw, Eyes, Faith, Fears Call, Feel, Ghosts, Gumman, Gun, Hand, Head, Heat, Invincible, Invisible, Kill, Last, Madness, Man, Midnight, Moon, Moonlight, No Good, Outgunning, Past, Poetry and Poems, Regret, Riding Hard, Running, Sadness, Silence, Simple Secret, Stir, Sun, Three Men, Trembling Voices, Two Men, Understand, Understood
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Thought For the Day: Man May Dismiss Compassion From His Heart, But God Never Will
“Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.” – William Cowper
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Tagged Compassion, Dismiss, God, Heart, Man, Thought For the Day, William Cowper
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Thought For the Day: If A Man Loves the Labour of His Trade, Apart From Any Question of Success or Fame, the Gods Have Called Him
“If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.” -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet (13 Nov 1850-1894) — Individuals deeply devoted to their professions without … Continue reading
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Tagged Achievement, Agency, Call, Calling, Consideration, Enjoy, Existence, Existential Responsibility, Fame, God, Gods, Gratitude, Heart, Income, Individuality, Intrinsic Motivation, Labor, Man, Mankind, Marker, Meaning, Motivation, Personal Satisfaction, Psychology, Purpose, Question, Recognition, Right Attitude, Significance, Society's Boundaries, Success, Thought For the Day, Trade, Transcend, True Value, Work
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Thought For the Day: The First Duty of A Man Is To Think For Himself
“The first duty of a man is to think for himself.” – Jose Marti, Hombre del Campo — This is only a partial quote. The full quote is “The first duty of a man is to think for himself. For … Continue reading
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