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Thought For the Day: Where Exactly Does It Come From, I’d Like To Know, This Ineradicable Attitude of Superiority Toward the Past?
“Where exactly does it come from, I’d like to know, this ineradicable attitude of superiority toward the past? This stubbornly dumb, can’t-kill-it-with-an-ax conviction that we, the now, critically and categorically know better than they, the past. Is it from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Attitude, Categorical, Clothes, Conviction, Critical, Exact, Feelings, Future, Hairstyles, Know Bettr, Known, Naive, Oksana Zabuzko, Past, Pedantic, People, Permissive, Same Time, Small Children, Superiority, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets, Thought For the Day, Thoughts, Treat
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Talk of Grace
Talk of Graceby Michael DoyleIt is all of us, the body of peopleFound under God’s holy steepleThat makes us wonder about graceUndeserved in favor, yet we know our placeClearly, His church is most attractiveWhere grace is found and is most … Continue reading
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Tagged All of Us, Apparent, Attractive, Church, Clear, Favor, Found, Glory, God, God's Story, Grace, Great Things, Holy Name, Holy Steeple, Learn, Lives, Love Given, People, Place, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Reflective, Talk, Transparent, Undeserved, Wonder, World
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Aim, Art of Government, Counselor, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Great Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Require, Right and Wrong, Self, Think
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Thought For the Day: When You’re Traveling, You Are What You Are Right There and Then. People Don’t Have Your Past To Hold Against you. No Yesterdays On the Road
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
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Tagged Against, Past, People, Right There, Road, Then, Thought For the Day, Travel, William Least Heat-Moon, Yesterdays
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Sometimes Anyway
Sometimes Anywayby Michael DoyleGood food like gumbo is hard to replaceIt opens people up and puts a smile in placeWhile a child makes a wish on the evening starA wished upon wish just might take her farBut even the best … Continue reading
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Tagged Anyway, Ball, Bottom, Child, Count, Crown, Dedication, Dreams, Evening Star, Eyes, Fairy Tale, Far, Faraway, Gambler, Gumbo, Hard Work, Inspiration, Love, Mardis Gras, Mississippi, Money, New Orleans, Pancakes, People, Poetry and Poems, Replace, River City, Smile, Sometimes, Surprise, True, Waltz, Wish
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First Principles: I Ask Who Are the Militia? They Consist of the Whole People
“I ask, Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.” – George Mason (1788)
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Tagged Ask, Consist, First Principles, George Mason, Militia, People, Who, Whole
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Thought For the Day: There Are Basically Two Types of People. People Who Accomplish Things, and People Who Claim to Have Accomplished Things
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.” – Mark Twain
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Tagged Accomplish, Basic, Claim, Crowd, First Group, Mark Twain, People, Thought For the Day, Types
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Thought For the Day: There Are Stars Whose Radiance Is Visible On Earth Though They Have Long Been Extinct
“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brillaince, Dark, Earth, Extinct, Hannah Senesh, Humankind, Light, Living, Night, People, Radiance, Stars, Thought For the Day, Visible, World
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Thought For the Day: The Limits of Tyrants Are Prescribed By the Endurance of Those Whom They Suppress
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and … Continue reading
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Tagged Blows, Concede, Demand, Endurance, Frederick Douglass, Impose, Injustice, Limits, People, Power, Resist, Submit, Suppress, Thought For the Day, Tyrants, Words, Wrong
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First Principles: Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Art of Government, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Right and Wrong, Think and Act, Thomas Jefferson
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