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Tag Archives: Mean
Cobblestoned Memories
Cobblestoned Memoriesby Michael DoyleCobbled together in our memoriesAre the pictures of our communitiesThe pages drying out as historiesWe will one day look on as our legaciesTalking in our circled tomorrowsFinding drops of happiness in our sorrowLearning from each other to … Continue reading
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Tagged Apology, Cobblestone, Community, Days, Exploration, Friend, History, Learn, Legacy, Light, Mean, Memories, Mirror, Pictures, Poetry and Poems, Right, Slate, Sorrow, Splash Screen, Tomrrow, Ways
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Thought For the Day: The True Meaning of America, you ask?…Freedom Is What America Means To the World. And To Me.
“The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper… In all these things, and many more, you’ll find America. In … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Audie L. Murphy, Freedom, Laughing Children, Me, Mean, Policeman's Badge, Texas Rodeo, Thought For the Day, True Meaning, World
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First Principles: Liberty Is A Word Which, According As It Is Used, Comprehends The Most Good and the Most Evil of Any In the World. Justly Understood It Is Sacred
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Landholder, Appropriate, Choice, Comprehend, Confusion, Divine Adoration, Evil, First Principles, Jealousy, Liberty, Mean, Necessary Government, Oliver Ellsworth, Power, Promote Good, Rulers, Sacred, Society, Understood
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First Principles: He Who Permits Himself To Tell A Lie Once, Finds It…Becomes Habitual
“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Contemptible, Easy, First Principles, Habitual, Length, Lie, Mean, Permit, Pitiful, Thomas Jefferson, Vice
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As To Heaven, Our Hands Raise
As To Heaven, Our Hands Raiseby Michael DoyleIn our Christian legacyJesus is our first priorityHe is before all other thingsAnd He is for whom we singIn the beginning was the WordBefore any other thought occurredUntil He came to dwell among … Continue reading
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Tagged All Belongs To Him, Before All Things, Beginning, Catalyst, Center, Christian Legacy, Comfortable, Compass, Difference, Dwell, Every Other Part, Eyes, Glorify Him, Glory, Grace and Mercy, Hands, Heart, Heaven, His Purpose, History, Hymn, Jesus, Know, Look, Love, Mean, Nowhere Else, Page and the Book, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Priority, Raise, Reverence, Routine, Sing, Surprise, The First and the Last, The Lord, Thought, Treasure, Truth, Word
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Thought of the Day: If Liberty Means Anything At All, It Means the Right To Tell People What They Do Not Want To Hear
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” —George Orwell (1903-1950)ople what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell (1903-1950)
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Tagged Anything, George Orwell, Hear, Liberty, Mean, People, Right, Thought For the Day
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A Brodsky View of the Pandemic
A Brodsky View of the Pandemicby Michael DoyleShow trial advances without stayCharges pressed without any delayThe time arrives to dispense all playIn a fluke filled with fearsCame the nice as if to cheersThat would repeat themselves through yearsQuickly then comes … Continue reading
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Tagged Affect, Battlefields, Beliefs, Bliss, Brodsky, Broken Out, Cast, Charges, Cheers, Citizens, Clue, Conscience, Consequences, Crisis, Crowned Head, Crush, Curtains, Delay, Duty, Errors, Experts, Eyes, Fact, Fears, Flail, Flu, Fluke, Freedom, Freedom and Liberty, Full Sail, Happiness, History, Horizon, Ignorance, Inner Cells, Judgment, Known, Labs, Last Act, Liberty, Looking Back, Marble, Masst, Mean, My Life, Not Forget, Pandemic, Paradise, Past, Play, Poet, Poetry and Poems, Politician, Prescience, Present, Prevail, Pride, Pseudo-Science, Repeat, Revealed, Sad, Sails, Shots, Show Trial, State of Freedom, Step On, Tarnish, Time, Truth, Wishes, Years
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Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part II
Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part IIIby Michael DoyleHowever much some point out their clarityA dreamer remains undeterred by realityEven when it seems everyone is living culpableIt never stops quixotic dreams of the impossibleFloating as it is into the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bottom-Line, Clarity, Culpable, Days, Death, Dedicate, Devastation, Devine, Dreamer, Dreams, Essence, Falls, Fire, Force Multiplier, Future Shock, Greed, Impossible, Last Breath, Last Hope, Lean, Lessons, Lorax, Mean, Mustard Seed, Nature and Trees, Need, Page, Perfect, Plays, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Rainbow, Reality, Shot, Sorrow, Soul, Stage, Success, Tomorrow, Truth, Vibes, Win, World, Worthy Thought, Zen
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First Principles: Knowledge Will Forever Govern Ignorance, and A People Who Mean To Be Their Own Governors, Must Arm Themselves With the Power Knowledge Gives
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.” – James Madison
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Tagged First Principles, Govern, Ignorance, James Madison, Knowledge, Mean, Own Governors, People, Power
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