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Tag Archives: Power
First Principles: Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have Perverted It To Tyranny
“Experience hath shewn, That Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have, In Time, and By Slow Operations, Perverted It To Tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson Still think Obama understood the Constitutional law he lectured on? … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Forms, Entrust, Experience, First Principles, Government, Pervert, Power, Shown, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny
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Angel Falls (Recalls)
There’s a lot of power in the water that flows on this planet of ours. Like the sun .. but a lot cooler.. it is a bringer of both life and destruction…. Angel Falls (Recalls) by Michael Romani Angel Falls … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Angel Falls, Backbone, Beauty, Chemistry, Complexity, Consistent, Crumble, Cycle, Death, Destruction, Earth, Echo, Electric, Energy, Ethereal, Flow, Force, Found, Fright, Heat, Hour, Hydrothermal, Island, Kinetic, Ledge, Life, Lightning, Loop, Mystery, Newborn, Ocean, Organic, Peak, Photograph, Planet, Poem, Poetry, Power, Primordial, Rock, Sky, Soul, Soup, Stardust, Storm, Strife, Sun, Surge, Synergy, System, Warm, Water
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Thought For the Day: Government Has No Right To Control Individual Liberty Beyond What Is Necessary To the Safety and Well-Being of Society
“Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boundary, Citizen, Control, Government, Individual Liberty, John C Calhoun, Liberty, Necessary, Power, Right, Safety, Separates, Society, Thought For the Day, Well Being
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Strong On Defense
The Sun is one part friend and one part foe. It’s amazing thinking of the ways the Earth protects us from this. https://flic.kr/p/mzC6Hg Strong On Defense by Michael Romani What is the strength of the solar flares To measure this, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Answer, Assassin, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Burn, Core, Curtain, Damage, Defense, Earth, Edge, Fissures, Foe, Friend, Heart, Heat, Inferno, Lava, Light, Magnetic Field, Mars, Motion, Night, Ocean, Orbit, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Radioactive, Ravage, Shield, Show, Solar Flare, Space, Strong, Study, Sun, Ultra Violet, Vents, Volcano, Zenith
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Retribution For Frailty
Sadists like to kick people when they’re down. Turn to multiple forums from Facebook to otherwise and you see people constantly tearing at each other and doing this for the good of the other. Interesting how we convince ourselves … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Broken, Brutality, Cave, Comfort, Community, Corrupt, Cruelty, Damage Done, Dare, Desire, Desparation, Down, Eyes, Fester, Frailty, Good, Humilation, Kick, Know, Lie, Menace, Pain, Photograph, Piety, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Punish, Refuse, Repressed, Retribution, Sadist, Savage, Save, Sting, Suffer, Torture, Truth, Vain, Vengeance, Vulnerable
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Bones of A Dead Man
We can learn a lot from the past. The trick is to learn the best not the worse and realize things, thoughts, deeds are contextual and not always the same as it might be today or the future. Bones of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bite, Bones, Book, Catch, Context, Create, Crude, Dead Man, Death, Deliverance, Fate, Full, Help, Journey, Last Breth, Late, Learn, Live, Memory, Mosquito, Old man, Others, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Read, Scribble, Secret, See, Sepia Tone, Shadow, Soul, Torture, Trick, Win, Write
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Thought For the Day: Whether Prince or Pauper, All Are Prone To Abuse Power If Not Guided By Love of Truth and Virtue
“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.” – Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (8 Jul … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Animated, Anyone, Jean de la Fontaine, Love, Matter, Power, Prince, The People, Thought For the Day, Trust, Truth, Virtue
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