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Thought For the Day: The Grand Paradox of Our Society Is This: We Magnify Man’s Right But We Minimize His Capacities
“The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.” – Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970)
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Tagged Capacities, Grand, Joseph Wood Krutch, Magnify, Man's Right, Minimize, Paradox, Society, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of the Society But the People Themselves
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Know, Safe Depository, Society, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Ultimate Powers
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Until Humanity is Gone
Until Humanity Is Goneby Michael DoyleThese parasites came to bring decayDestroying the vestiges of yesterdayThey prey on the last of our humanityKilling in waves depleting our societyMaking it impossible to be withstoodSetting fire to our planet and its woodsRats, insects … Continue reading
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Tagged Adapt or Die, Anger, Apocalyptic, Appetite, Arrival, Bluff, Children, Confusion, Cost, Crush, Darkness, Dead, Decay, Desire, Destruction, Enemy, Exist, Fight, Fire, Flame, Forward, Gone, Hope, Humanity, Illusion, Impossible, Jester, Kill, Line, Night, Onward, Pain, Parasite, Path, Pestilence, Planet, Poetry and Poem, Possible, Prey, Reprive, Resilience, Right, Salvation, Scavage, Sear, Siege, Sight, Sky, Society, Sorrow, Soul, Struggle, Survival, Survive, Thread, Tide, Tomorrow, Vestiges, Yesterday
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First Principles: One Single Object…[Will Merit] the Endless Gratitude of the Society: That of Restraining the Judge From Usurping Legislation
“One single object … [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” – Thomas Jefferson (1825)
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Tagged First Principles, Gratitude, Judge, Legislation, Merit, Restrain, Single Object, Society, Thomas Jefferson
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Echo Chambered
Echo Chamberedby Michael DoyleI’ve tried to fit inBut here we are againSo many interested in the echoChambered and not the ebb and flowTo me, I find a lot to think onAs I watch life’s tides flowToo little time for arguing … Continue reading
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Tagged A Lot to Think On, Antique, Argue, Conspiracy, Constitution, Doesn't Really Matter, Easy To Shoot, Ebb and Flow, Echo, Enemy, Except For Your Way, Here We Are Again, Interest, Life's Tides, Long As the Target Isn't You, Mystery, Open Ended, Picking Targets, Poetry and Poems, Questioning, Remind, Revolution, Rule of Law, Shatters, Society, Too Little Time, Tried To Fit In, Wide Open, Without Depth, Yesterday
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First Principles: The Virtues of Men Are of More Consequence To Society Than Their Abilities; and For This Reason, the Heart Should Be Cultivated With More Assiduity Than the Head
“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.” – Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788
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Tagged Abilities, Assiduity, Consequence, Cultivate, First Principles, Head, Heart, Mankind, Noah Webster, Reason, Society, Virtues
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What’s Your Story?
What’s Your Story?by Michael DoyleTell me, please, of the gloryThat opens up your storyLeaving behind the ninety-nineFor the inheritance that is mineDoing that riotous livingNeeding more than a little forgivingFeeling more than unworthyBrother, you are no lesser than meAt least, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alibi, Assured, Belief, Brother, Changing Lives, Contemplation, Could Not Keep, Dead Man Walking, Extermity, Faith, Far Country, Feeling, Forgiving, Found, Free, Freed, God Reached Out, God Shaped Vacuum, God's Glory, Goodness, Grace, Grown Dim, His Majesty, In Him, Inheritance, Leaving Behind, Lights, Linger, Living Past Thirty, Living Prayer, Lost Coins, Lost Sheep, Matter of History, Me, Mine, Moments, Need, Ninety-Nine, No Lesser, Open, Overdose, Peace, Plant, Poetry and Poems, Prodigal, Promises, Read, Redemption, Riotous Living, Satan's Snare, Seed, Sins of the Family, Society, Soul, Stand up, Story, Straight Talking, Taken Back, Tell Me, The Father's Glory, The Glory, Thrown Books, Tossed, Unworthy, What's Your Story?, Without A Clue, Words, Worthy, Wouldn't Keep, Wrecking Crew
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First Principles: The Virtues of Men Are of More Consequence To Society Than Their Abilities; and For This Reason, the Heart Should be Cultivated With More Assiduity Than the Head
“The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.” – Noah Webster (1788)
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Tagged Abilities, Assiduity, Consequence, Cultivated, Head, Heart, Mankind, Noah Webster, Reason, Society, Virtues
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Thought For the Day: The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Freedom – They Are the Pillars of Society
“The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — they are the pillars of society.” – Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
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Tagged Freedom, Henrik Ibsen, Pillars, Society, Spirit, Thought For the Day, Truth
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