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Motives Met
Based in part on 1 Cor 4:5: Motives Met by Michael Romani Things of darkness brought to light Keeping praise to make this right We are stewards entrusted to care Keeping our charges from Satan’s snare When we stand before … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Cor 4:5, Abundance, Action, Blessing, Care, Connection, Darkness, Desire, Fire, Glory, God, Good, Grace, Heart, Humanity, Intention, Judged, Light, Lord, Measure, Met, Motive, Motives, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Pure, Resplendence, Right, Sacrifice, Satan, Should, Snare, Steward, Story, Suffice, Throne, Treasure, Truth, Wellbeing, World
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First Principles: Extravagant Spending of Public Money Is An Evil Exceeding the Value of the Money To the People Taxed For It
“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.” – Chester A. Arthur
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Tagged Chester A Arthur, Evil, Expenditure, Extravagant, First Principles, Measure, Public Money, Tax, The People, Value
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Hurts To Be Human
Another lousy day misspent… but hey.. a poem.. Hurts To Be Human by Michael Romani It hurts to be human It’s human to feel hurt Capturing this in the moment Filled with grief and torment The annals of our history … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Measure of A Person Is Where He or 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, Martin Luther King Jr, Measure, Moment, Person, Stand, Thought For the Day, Ultimate
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Art and the Box Office
Is the art of Broadway or a movie measured by box office or by other standards? Art and the Box Office by Michael Romani It may seem a bit of artifice To say that art isn’t measured by the box … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artifice, Balance, Box Office, Compromise, Corrupt, Doubt, Establishment, Life, Measure, Perfect Jewel, Persuasion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Showmanship, Soul, Tarnish, Wise, Youth
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First Principles: The Right To Freely Examine Public Persons and Measures and Freely Communicate Is the Only Effectual Guardian of Every Other Right
“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”– James Madison (1798)
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Tagged First Principles, Free Communication, Free Examination, Guardian, James Madison, Measure, Public Character, Right, Rights, The People
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Who Do You Say That I am?
Based in part on Matthew 15:16: Who Do You Say That I Am? by Michael Romani Sometimes stigmatized by the visual Here in this age of consuming digital I see what my eyes choose to see Wondering if it’s with … Continue reading
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Tagged Acuity, Alone, Apart, Approval, Blind, Book of Matthew, Broken, Certainty, Clear, Confidence, Crack, Creativity, Deflection, Digital, Disguise, Distraction, Eye, Eyes, Fall, False Assumption, Foolishness, God, Gravity, Heart, Hide, Imperfection, Impression, Jacked Up, Jesus, Kindness, Knee Jerk Reaction, Levitate, Lost, Love, Measure, Mind, Mirror, Negativity, One Half, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Presumption, Promise, Recall, Renew, Rust, Soul, Stigma, Stone, Strong, Toss, Treasure, Trouble, Trust, Visual, Warrior, Weak, Wisdom
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First Principles: Federal Law Must Be Equitable To All Parts of Our Nation
“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamn Franklin, Error, Favor, First Principles, History, Law, Measure, Policy, Prejudice, Prosecution, Ruin
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