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Tag Archives: Sense
Thought For the Day: The Eye of the Understanding Is Like the Eye of the Sense….You May See Great Axioms of Nature Through Small and Contemptible Instances
“The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.” -Francis Bacon, essayist, … Continue reading
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Tagged Thought For the Day, Nature, Sense, Francis Bacon, Understanding, See, Objects, Small, Eye, Instances, Crannies, Great Axioms
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Thought For the Day: I Do Not Feel Obliged To Believe That the Same God Who Has Endowed Us With Sense, Reason, and Intellect Has Intended Us To Forgo Their Use
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
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Tagged Endow, Feel, Forgo, Galilelo, Galileo Galilei, God, Intellect, Intend, Oblige, Reason, Sense, Thought For the Day, Use
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The Spin of the Win, …Again
The Spin of the Win, ..Againby Michael DoyleOh the spin, the spinThe spin masters spinTurning America’s lossInto some kind of winOh the spin, the spinThe spin masters spinTrying to turn what should be a lossInto a political winMistaking the wrong … Continue reading
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Tagged Adulterous Woman, America, American People, Begin, Betrayal, Blur, Brutally, Burr, Clarity, Condoned, Conviction, Crime, Cringe, Game, Game Is on, Ides of March, Invincibility, Legality, Loss, Miss, Pardoned, Poetry and Poems, Political Win, Pretense, Self-Aware, Sense, Shame, Spin, Stoned, Teflon Don, Tenuous Legal Theory, Thought, Trash Talk, Unpredictability, Win
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First Principles: Of All the Disposition and Habits Which Lead to Political Prosperity, Religion and Morality Are Indispensable Supports
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness — these … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizens, Dispositions, Duties, Farewell Address, First Principles, George Washington, Habits, Human Happiness, Indispensable Supports, Life, Manknd, Morality, Oaths, Patriotism, Pillar, Political Prosperity, Property, Religion, Religious Obligations, Reputation, Security, Sense, Tribute
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Thought For the Day: Never Let Your Sense of Morals Get In the Way of Doing What’s Right
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.” -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (2 Jan 1920-1992)
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Tagged Isaac Asimov, Morals, Never, Right, Sense, Thought For the Day, Way
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Held In Silence
Held In Silenceby Michael DoyleDarling, I’ve learned to love youBut somehow hate you moreDarling,I could never be without youBut trust me, I know the scoreThe traces may be coldFrom the fenced goods soldAll the secrets circled roundTo the treasures; they … Continue reading
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Tagged Answers, Darkness, Darling, Don Quixote, Fenced Goods, Found, Grieving Widow, Harshness, Hate, Held, Hope, Light, Lonely Mother, Love, Night, Poetry and Poems, Pray Alone, Right, Score, Scream, Secrets, Sense, Silence, Squeeze, Startlled, Traces, Trust, Understand, Violence, Without
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Thought For the Day: I Imagine One of the Reasons People Cling To Their Hates So Stubbornly Is Because They Sense, Once Hate Is Gone, They’ll Be Forced To Deal With Pain
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain” -James Baldwin, writer (2 Aug 1924-1987)
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Tagged Cling, Deal, Forced, Gone, Hate, Imagine, James Baldwin, Pain, People, Reasons, Sense, Stubborn, Thought For the Day
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Turning the Impossible
Turning the Impossibleby Michael DoyleIn all of our daysLet us lift our voices in praiseLike the Lion of JudahRaises our valleysAnd lowers our mountainsGaining vantage that we might seeTurning our impossibleInto all our needed miraclesWith the faith of a mustard … Continue reading
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Tagged Days, Faith, Final Say, God, Humility, Impossible, Light, Lion of Judah, Lives, Miracles, Mountains, Mustard Seed, Need, Nowhere, Path, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Pride, See, Sees All, Sense, Shine, Trust, Turning, Unbreakable, Unmovable, Valleys, Way
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A Cry for Uvalde
A Cry for Uvaldeby Michael DoyleSomewhere beyond a world of feelingIs the way of knowing healingThese are the times for being an exampleThe differences made will be ampleFighting not with fists but with prayerPeeling back the onion of life, layer … Continue reading
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