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The New Tolerance
The New Toleranceby Michael Doyle A little something about toleranceIt’s not by majority or in ignoranceTruth is absolute and not up for voteThe new intolerance needs an antidote This the antidote or speaking truthSomething we should from our youthTruth spoken … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Antidote, Day by Day, Equal In Worth, Ignorance, Intolerance, Majoirty, New, North, Objective, One Way, Opinion, Poetry and Poems, Saving Grace, Speaking Truth, Subjective, Tolerance, Truth, Vote, Youth
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Coercion, Error Alone, First Principles, Government, Inquisitors, Needs, Opinion, Stand By Itself, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself.
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Alone, Coercion, Error, First Principles, Inquisitors, Opinion, Stand By Itself, Support of Government, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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Thought For the Day: Make Mankind Wise and By That Very Operation You Make Them Free
“Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.” – William Godwin (1756-1836)
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Tagged Artillery, Civil Liberty, Consequence, Free, Mankind, Operation, Opinion, Stand, Thought For the Day, Usurped Power, William Godwin, Wise
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone, Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can stand by itself.
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged By Itself, Can Stand, Coercion, Error Alone, First Principles, Government, Inquisitor, Needs, Opinion, Subject, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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First Principles: That Is No Maxim…More Liable To Be Misapplied… Than… That…the Interest of the Majority Is the Political Standard of Right and Wrong
“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.” – James Madison … Continue reading
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Tagged Current, Elucidation, First Principles, Interest, James Madison, Liable, Majority, Misapplied, No Maxim, Opinion, Political Standard, Right and Wrong
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First Principles: Never Let A Difference of Opinion In Politics, Religion Or Philosophy Be A Cause From Withdrawing From A Friend
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Cause, Consider, Difference, First Principles, Friend, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Withdraw
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Ode To A Mermaid Friend
A new friend who helped me in getting my bearings in the new place I have in SL and encourages me to form a poetry group there is a mermaid. We were talking about the funny quips she has on … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Celestial, Chian, Comb, Control, Dejavu, Depth, Destiny, Dream, Drown, Emotion, Eternity, Fade, First Light, Food, Friend, Gold, Jester, Kingdom, Legend, Long Hair, Lose, Magic, Mahogany, Mer Men, Mermaid, Mood, Mortal, Music, Mystery, Mystical, Nature, Night, Ocean, Ode, Opinion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Rattle, Shrimp, Sin, Siren, Soul, Spare, Tale, Tempt, Tragic, Wept, Word, Wreck
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First Principles: Never Consider A Difference of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”– Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Cause, Consider, Difference, First Principles, Friend, Opinion, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Thomas Jefferson, Withdraw
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