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First Principles: All Courses of Action Are Risky, So Prudence Is Not In Avoiding Danger (It’s Impossible), But Calculating Risk and Acting Decisively
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Ambition, Bold, Calculate, Courses of Action, Danger, Decisive, First Principles, Mistake, Niccolo Machiavelli, Prudence, Risk, Sloth, Strength, Suffer
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First Principles: We Know That Equality of Individual Ability Has Never Existed and Never Will, But We Do Insist That Equality of Opportunity Still Must Be Sought
“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Kamala Harris has made a great deal out about “equity”. That … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdity, Aware, Decline, Equal Outcome, Equality, Equality of Opportunity, Equity, Essential, Exist, First Principles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harmful, Illogic, Incentive, Individual Ability, Insist, Kamala Harris, Natoin, Pathological Destruction, Reward, Sloth, Society, Sought, Superior Talent, Well-Being
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Selective Slackerism
Selective Slackerismby Michael DoyleWhen every word that has been written and readAnd when every loss has been found in things saidIt comes down to something less than intellectualBetween the discipline and the passing ineffectualWins and losses are shared within life’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arbitrary, Challenges, Characteristic, Condescension, Discipline, Every Word, Fair Share, Inattention, Ineffectual, Intellectual, Loss, Mundane, Passing Regrets, Poetry and Poems, Primary, Process, Qwichanist, Satisfaction, Selective, Slackerism, Sloth, Stigma, Success, Tasks, Things Said, Wins and Losses
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Reflections on Dorian Gray, Pt. IX: Released From This Evil
Reflections on Dorian Gray, Pt IX: Released From this Evilby Michael DoyleA chain smoked cigar puffed on to make amendsBetween two estranged who had once been friendsTo be young again and to set sail into the dawnUntil one realizes it … Continue reading
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Tagged Amend, Attic, Bleed, Breath, Cage, Cardinal Sins, Cigar, Clutch, Crimson, Dawn, Days, Death, Devil, Devotion, Discipline, Dorian Gray, Emotions, Enslavement, Evill, Freedom, Friends, God, Gothic, Hellfire, His Evil, Oath, Old Friend, Poetry and Poems, Portrait, Practice, Preach, Rage, Reflections, Release, Released, Sloth, Tears, Toys, Tragic, Transform, Wishes
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A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts
A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts (Republished for 2020)by Michael Doyle aka Michael Romani I. I have heard it saidThat you can eat ’til you’re fullAnd it’s still not enoughThe excuse to be given“But, it’s Christmas…”And one really shouldn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All Life Must Give Me, Application, Believe, Bells and Whistles, Best In Marriage, Best Path, Better To Give Than Receive, Bringing Such Peace As I can, Brothers, Cake, Cardinal Rule, Chastity, Christmas, Contentment, Control, Desire, Devoted, Diligence, Dire, Discipline, Each Day A Treasure, Each Other, Earned This Anger, Easier, Endurance, Enough, Entitled, Envy, Essence of Love, Everything, Excess, Excuse, Experienced, Filling Needs, Fire, Forgiven, Fruit, Full, Gather These Around, Give It Toward Others, Given, Giving Toward All Others, Gizmos and Gears, Gluttony, Greed, Harm Done, Heard, Heaven's Sake, Held Without Measure, Holy Living, Holy Spirit, It's Christmas, Keep It All To Myself, Keep Me Angry, Keep My Faith, Keep These Things, Keeping Each of These, Kept, Kindness, Like A Prayer, Live Each Day, Love, Lovers, Lust, Material Things, Milk of Kindness, Mine, Miss, Need, Needed, Never Enough, Noble and Good, Not Do Without, Not Followed, Nourish, Offer Up, Part of Me, Patience, Penitent, Perfect My Soul, Persistence, Phase of Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practice, Purity, Qualities, Reliance, Rely, Remain So, Said, Sexual Union, Share, Should Find Me, Sisters, Sloth, Some More, Spirit of, Spirit of Christmas, Srive, Steadfast, Still Not Enough, Strength, Study of Kindness, Suffice, Sure, Sustain, Temperance, Time and Place, Time Enough, To Do Nothing At All, To Find God, To Keep, Too Hard To Do It Right, True Love, Uncontrolled, Undone, Unearned Grace, Unforgiving, Virtue, Wait A Minute, Walking Life, Wants, Welcome Stranger, Where I Dare, Worth Every Minute, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: He Who Has Struggled Constantly With His Ills Becomes Hardened Through Suffering and Yields To No Misfortune
“Bodies grown fat through sloth are weak, and not only labour, but even movement and their very weight cause them to break down. Unimpaired prosperity cannot withstand a single blow; but he who has struggled constantly with his ills becomes … Continue reading
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Tagged Blow, Bodies, Breakdown, Constant, Falls, Fat, Fights, Harden, Ills, Knees, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Misfortune, Prosperity, Sloth, Struggle, Suffering, Thought For the Day, Unimpaired, Weak, Withstand, Yields
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Monkey Play
https://flic.kr/p/tP6nNL Monkey Play by Michael Romani Seen from above as a thick carpet of green But then… things are never as they’re seen Each animal like monkeys in the canopy Clamber and cope as they pass tree to tree Red … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Bald Ukari, Canopy, Death, Harpy Eagle, Life, Monkey, Play, Poem, Poetry, Red Howlers, Sloth, Spider Monkeys, Verdant
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Thought For the Day: Act Worthy of Yourselves
“The man who meanly will submit to wear a shackle, contemns the noblest gift of heaven, and impiously affronts the God that made him free. Ease and prosperity (though pleasing for a day) have often sunk a people into … Continue reading
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Tagged Affronts, America, American Revolution, American Service Members, Christianity, Effeminacy, First Principles, Fortunes, Freedom, God, Gratitude, Joseph Warren, Liberty, Memorial Day, Oration, Public Square, Service, Shackle, Sloth, Thankfulness, Thought For the Day, Worthy
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