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A Star Wars Lesson In Liberty
May 4th has become, for some, a day of tribute to Star Wars as “May the 4th Be With You” day. When the day passed recently, it gave me some cause to think about how we around the planet … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambiguity, Anakin, Bad, Black and White, Civil Liberties, Continues, Darkness, Darth Vader, Democracy, Empire, Enchained, Evil, Father Time, Good, Jedi, Learn, Lesson, Liberty, Man, Manipulation, May 4th, May the Fourth Be With You, Means, Moral, Old, People, Photograph, Plain Sight, Poem, Poetry, Power, Quest, Reel, Republic, Security, Shallow, Silver Screen, Soul, Spool, Star Wars, Steal, Story, Sublime, Trilogy, Truth, Useful Tool, Watch
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First Principles: We Have No Government Armed With Power Capable of Contending With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality and Religion
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution … Continue reading
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Tagged Contend, First Principles, Human Passion, John Adams, Morality, No Government, Power, Religion, Unbridled
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First Principles: The Two Most Powerful Warriors Are Patience and Time
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Leo Tolstoy, Patience, Power, Thought For the Day, Time, Two, War and Peace, Warriors
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First Principles: We Have No Government With Power Capable of Contending With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality and Religion
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution … Continue reading
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Tagged Address to the Military, Contend, First Principles, Government, Human Passions, John Adams, Morality, Power, Religion, Unbridled
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The Wolf Knows Its Howl
Enforced surveillance and censorship of the creative mind, particularly by oppressive government is nothing short of a crime against humanity. The Wolf Knows Its Howl by Michael Doyle When a writer must be brave To memorize just to save The … Continue reading
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Tagged Artist, Authority, Bitterness, Brave, Call, Censorship, Choke, Civilization, Conscience, Control, Creative Mind, Crevice, Crime Against Humanity, Cry, Culture, Dark, Days, Die, Education, Eradication, Falls, Fight, Free, God, Heart, Howl, Ink, Know, Labor, Light, Live, Mankind, Memorize, Night, Opportunism, Oppression, Paper, Pessimism, Photograph, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Poisoned Tongue, Power, Right, Save, Scrap, Shadow, Sheep, Sleep, Start, Stifle, Surveillance, Truth, Undertaking, Unmask, Watch, Winter, Wolf, Words, World, Writer
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To Become A Knight
To be a knight is to be a servant for the country and its people. To Become A Knight by Michael Doyle The darkness is coming There’s no use in running Ruthlessly conquering as it comes It brings us to … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Awaken, Become, Blame, Boy, Brave, Burn, Call, Can, Come, Conquer, Consign, Country, Crush, Cunning, Darkness, Day, Destruction, Devour, Do, Eyes, Far, Fate, Fight, Fire, Flame, Found, Ground, Heart, Heed, Hero, Hold, Hour, Instincts, Knees, Knight, Knighthood, Knock, Learn, Lesson, Lust, Martial Styles, Mind, Need, Noble, Numb, Pass, People, Photograph, Please, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prepare, Prophecy, Protector, Rider, Role, Run, Savage, See, Servant, Servant of God, Sign, Soul, Spread, Start, Straight, Surplus, Survive, Take, Trial, True, Unholy, Warrior, Way, Weak, Will, Word, World, Zero
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A Nation In Need of Unity
In the last of this series, American history continues through the present: https://flic.kr/p/vCW1P4 A Nation In Need of Unity by Michael Doyle George H. Bush struggled under Reagan’s shadow With his pedigree and skills he led well as most know … Continue reading
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Tagged 1991, Age of Fracture, American History, Backward, Better, Challenge, Change, Children, Chinese Symbol, Choices, Civilization, Clash, Cold War, Commonality, Confidence, Containment Doctrine, Corruption, Crisis, Debt, Deficits, Disaffection, Discontent, Disruption, Dread, Economics, End of History, Exceptional Now, Extricate, Focus, Forwaard, Fuction, Fukayama, Future, George H Bush, Germany, Give, Global Security, Hope, Hour, Humility, Huntington, Inspiration, Institutions, Invasion, Iraq, Know, Kuwait, Lesson, Liberal Democracy, Malcontent, Nation, National Debt, Need, New World Order, Operation Desert Storm, Pandemic, Past, Pedigree, Peril, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Prudence, Reagan, Rearrange, Rehablitation, Reintegration, Rogue States, Shadow, Sink, Sovereign, Soviet Empire, Strife, Take, Terrorism, Thug, Tiananmen Square, Together, Toward, Trillions, Unity, Unsustainable, Victory, Voices, Watch
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