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Storybook Kind of Love
Storybook Kind of Loveby Michael Doyle She wants a storybookKind of love –Only she wants itWith dirty picturesIt only took one lookTo dream along the something of – Need, …craven at first biteHer painted lights hypnotized my mind She was … Continue reading
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Tagged Affections, Attraction, Be So Lucky, Behind the Mask, Broken, Coloring, Crayons, Dazzle, Dirty Pictures, Distraction, Dream Along, Faking, Fallen Together, Favored, Golden, High Heels, Hypnotize, King, Love, Movements, My Mind, Need, Not the Kind, One Look, Painted Lights, Passion, Poetry and Poems, Priceless, Princess, Rook, Screen Shots, Silent Screams, Stolen Moments, Storybook, Sunday Worship, Token, Unspoken, World
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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dictates, Facts, Facts and Evidence, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Our Wishes, Passion, State, Stubborn Things
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Thought For the Day: On Organizational Leadership
Five Characteristics That Define An Outstanding Leader: There are more than five characteristics that define what makes an outstanding leader. Of the many that do, some of the most valuable include continued growth throughout career and life; purpose and passion … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Accomplish, Agreement, Align, Authority, Belief Systems, Boundless, Brutal Truth, Career, Change, Characteristics, Charisma, Collaboration, Collectivism, Conservative, Contextual Factors, Controversial, Cope, Crisis, Cultivation, Data Crunching, Decisiveness, Dedication, Differentiation, Discipline, Downfall, Employee Diversity, Flexibility, Ghandi, Goals, Growth, Humility, Individualism, Innate Personality, Leader-As-Hero, Leadership, Lessons, Level-5, Life, Lincoln, Obama, Optimism, Organizational Leadership, Outstanding Leader, Paradigm, Paradox, Passion, Persistence, Pope Francis, Power, Professional Will, Protocol, Purpose, Rigid, Risk Taking, Self-Reliance, Sense of Humor, Tasks, Teamwork, The Left, Thought For the Day, Transparency, Trump, Vision, Work-Lfie
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A Little Bit of Empathy
A Little Bit of Empathyby Michael DoyleThe relationship is about youAnd then again, it’s about meIt’s about our step into divinityDo we love our God flawlessly?It’s about the work yet to be doneIt’s about God’s love poured out to everyoneLet’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 Years, About Me, Accursed Grief, Advances, All of the Others, All That Is Holy, Allowing God, Another Great Awakening, Awaken, Back, Belief's Beauty, Calamites, Decline, Divinity, Empathy, Encouragement, Family, Felt, Find, Find Our Salvation, Finding Our Way Back, Flawlessly, From Bondage and Back, From Its Perversion, God, God's Voice, God's Love, Good Book, Gospel, Grow, Humble Ourselves, Interdependent, Is Needed, Keeping True, Lack, Life Dealt, Little Bit, Live Holy, Lives' Conversion, Losing Our Liberty, Loss, Loss of God, Love Our God, Meeting Together, Necessary Decision, No Longer Drowning, Not Strife, Our Step, Passion, Peace of Love, Poetry and Poems, Poured out, Pray, Prayer, Public Display, Pushed Out of Our History, Relationship, Restore, Revive, Sacred Community, Sacred Duty, Sanctity, Save Our Society, Save the Nation, Sea of Apathy, Seeking God's Love, Serve In Our Belief, Serving, Sisters and Brothers, Step Forward, Stripped, Technology, The Church, Theology, There Is No Liberty, Thrive, Toward, True Revival, Truly Heeded, Two Hundred Years, Waters of Our Life, What We Need, When We Look, Without God's Laws, Work, Yet To Be Done, You
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First Principles: The Republican Principle Demands That the Deliberate Sense of the Community Should Govern the Conduct of Those To Whom They Entrust the Management of Their Affairs
“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: It Is Easier To Lead Men To Combat, Stirring Up Their Passion, Than To Restrain Them and Direct Them Toward the Patient Labors of Peace
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” – Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
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Tagged Andre Gide, Combat, Direct, Easier, Labors, Lead, Men, Passion, Patient, Peace, Restrain, Stir, Thought For the Day, Toward
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The Greater the Miracles
The Greater the Miraclesby Michael DoyleReligion it seems is love’s emotionPersonified and adhered to with devotionFor a person who lives life without reasonHas committed the most personal of treasonsIn the Grand Inquisitor we find rarified poetryIn which passions are taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Aching, Again, Arise, Astray, Atone, Belief, Burn, Capability, Constants, Desire, Despotism, Devil, Devotion, Divine, Easily Led, Edge, Emotion, Fable, Faith, Fed, Freedom, Grave, Greater, Hate, Hell, Heresy, Himself, History, Jesus, Keys to the Kingdom, Kind, Late, Laugh, Lessons, Life, Live by Bread Alone, Live Life, Living, Love, Man, Miracles, Mistake, Mystery, Not Hate, Passion, Photograph, Piety, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power, Random Chances, Rare, Religion, Responsibility, Save, Second Chance, Seek, Strife, Suffer the Children, Temporal, Temptation, The Grand Inquisitor, Three Days, Treason, True Sign, Turn, War, Water Into Wine, Ways of Love, Without Reason, Work Miracles
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A Birthday Week
A Birthday Weekby Michael DoyleSolid as it is with just a look2020 was a hard one for the history booksBut, as those pages have turnedThere was one thing that I have learnedMy love was born a Libra on her scaleAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Agreeable Enough, Birthday, Birthday Week, Celebrate, Celebration, Clarity, Complexity, Connection, Contemplation, Dare, Deny, Easy, Fun, Golden Heart, Great Gift, Hard One, History Books, Insistence, Justice, Learned, Libra, Look, Love, Love of Fashion, Mumble, Need, One, Pages, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Reflect, Relaxation, Request, Scale, Sense, Simplicity, Sincerity, Solid, Speak, Strong Desire, Thing, Turn, Unity, Week, Words
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Thought For the Day: Angry Answers Stir Up Men’s Passions, But Never Convince Their Judgments, Nor Set Truth In A Clear Light
“Angry answers stir up men’s passions, but never convince their judgments, nor set truth in a clear light.” – Matthew Henry (1662-1714)
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Tagged Angry, Answers, Clear Light, Judgment, Matthew Henry, Never Convince, Passion, Set, Stir Up, Thought For the Day, Truth
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More Than Our Beginning
More Than Our Beginningby Michael DoyleIt’s more than our beginningI feel like first time really winningYour ways fill me up with loveAlways that something I’m dreaming ofDancing with you in my alwaysDreaming of you in all of my daysLooking into … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand Dreams, Always, Amazing Eyes, Beginning, Blessed, Burst, Dancing With You, Days, Dream, Dreaming of You, Eternal Fire, First Time, Guided Home, Lady, Love, More, My Desire, My Friend, My Heart, Never End, Night, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Stars, Winning, Your Light, Your Ways
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