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First Principles: Those Who Think Themselves Unaccountable Will Act Unaccountable and All Persons Would Be Unaccountable If They Could
“It is nothing strange, that men, who think themselves unaccountable, should act unaccountably, and that all men would be unaccountable if they could.” – John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letters
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Tagged Act, All, Cato's Letters, Could, First Principles, John Trenchard, Men, Strange, Think, Thomas Gordon, Unaccountable
An Obsession of Shadow
The challenge for the 13th day of Na/GloPoWriMo is to write something spooky or somewhat creepy. To me, there is maybe nothing more creepy than the shadowed, dark side of human nature. An Obsession of Shadow by Michael Romani Hiding … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Angel, Anger, Avarice, Beast, Better Living, Blame, Blood, Bury, Compassion, Creepy, Crime, Dark Side, Darkness, Demand, Desire, Detail, Eccentricity, Electricity, Embrace, Endure, Fulcrum, Ghost, Gloom, Hell's Fire, Human Nature, Land, Lick, Life, Lifetime, Lost, Luifer, Lust, Madness, Memory, Men, Mire, Mortals, Na/GloPoWriMo, Name, Nightmare, Obsession, Palm Read, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Reveal, Room, Safe, Sail, Scorpion, Secret, Shadow, Ship, Slave, Sleep, Soul, Spook, Suffrage, Tears, Trail, Trouble, Unforgiving, Villain, Walk, Weep, Wolf, World
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First Principles: Those Happily Employed At Good Work Are the Most Content
“When Men are employ’d they are best contented. For on the Days they work’d they were good-natur’d and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily.” – Benjamin Franklin (1771) … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Cheerful, Content, Employed, First Principles, Good Nature, Men, Work
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The Truth of Loving Consequences
Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. So goes the title and theory of an now old book that attempted to explain our differences in communication. But, wake up guys. This is the 21st Century and the women have … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 21st Century, Adoration, Cherish, Communication, Consequences, Detail, Dirty, End, Expectation, Friend, Game, Good Enough, Good Stuff, Guy, I, Innocent, Large and In Charge, Long Hours, Love, Mars, Men, Misdeed, Nicety, Party Favor, Perish, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Propose, Recall, Reply, Roses, Savor, Truth, Venus, Why, Wife, Window, Women, Zing
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First Principles: Man’s Wickedness Will Only Increase Without Religion
“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Mankind, Men, Religion, Wicked
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Outcast
Another for Halloween: Outcast by Michael Romani There are those with affinity Shared brokenness cast within infinity Those who find company with the sad men And pleasure in the darkness of bad men I am one of those Self consumed … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Affinity, Bad, Blood Frenzy, Born, Brokenness, Company, Darkness, Details, Face, Heart, Infinity, Kind, Lethal, Love, Memory, Men, Outcast, Peace, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Pretend, Sad, Self Consumed, Shadow, Shine, Solace, Sparkle, Two Part Harmony, Ugly
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Daily Prompt – Innocence Lost
Seems like a theme this year so far for this coming Halloween doesn’t it? I guess it’s been on mind lately that some of our worse horrors are self inflicted by mankind. On Innocence Lost (In War) by Michael Romani … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Alone, Better, Blood, Boys, Choice, Daily Prompt, Damaged Heart, Death, Dream, First Breath, First Kill, God's Plan, Halloween, Hero, Inflicted, Innocence, Lost, Love, Men, Moment, Night, Poor Excuse, Pray, Scar, Sin, Sleep, Sorrow, Spill, Together, Unholy Monster, Zero
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Word Prompt – Angel
Better men than me have caved to adversity Losing their way in life’s forms of perversity But, I may be among the first to openly agree That the angel on my back gets the best of me As she speaks … Continue reading
First Principles: A Republic Is Defined As Ruled By Laws Not Men
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams, Novanglus No. 7, 1775
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Tagged Definition, First Principles, Government, John Adams, Men, Novanglius Essays, Republic, Rule of Law
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