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Thought For the Day: Without Deviation, Without Exception, Without Any Ifs, Buts, or Whereases, Freedom of Speech Means That You Shall Not Do Something To People Either For Views They Express, Or the Words They Speak Or Write
“Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.” – Justice Hugo L. Black … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Ability To Simplify Means To Eliminate the Unnecessary So That the Necessary May Speak
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” -Hans Hofmann, painter (21 Mar 1880-1966)
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Tagged Ability, Eliminate, Hans Hofmann, Means, Necessary, Simplify, Speak, Thought For the Day, Unnecessary
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Thought For the Day: Since When Have We Americans Been Expected To Bow Submissively To Authority and Speak With Awe and Reverence To Those Who Represent Us
“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?” – Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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An Intellectual Conversation
An Intellectual Conversationby Michael DoyleI asked you to speak your beautiful mindUnsuspecting of all the wonders I might findBut knowing that I would love just to talkWho knew that talk would grow into our walkI asked you to kiss me … Continue reading
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A Birthday Week
A Birthday Weekby Michael DoyleSolid as it is with just a look2020 was a hard one for the history booksBut, as those pages have turnedThere was one thing that I have learnedMy love was born a Libra on her scaleAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Agreeable Enough, Birthday, Birthday Week, Celebrate, Celebration, Clarity, Complexity, Connection, Contemplation, Dare, Deny, Easy, Fun, Golden Heart, Great Gift, Hard One, History Books, Insistence, Justice, Learned, Libra, Look, Love, Love of Fashion, Mumble, Need, One, Pages, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Reflect, Relaxation, Request, Scale, Sense, Simplicity, Sincerity, Solid, Speak, Strong Desire, Thing, Turn, Unity, Week, Words
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Thought For the Day: Government Is Really Nothing But A Group of Men and Usually They Are Very Inferior Men
“People constantly speak of ‘the government’ doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men.” – H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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Tagged Doing This or That, God, Group of Men, H.L. Mencken, Inferior Men, People, Speak, The Government, Thought For the Day, Usual
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On Autumnal Equinox 2020 – Happy First Day Of Autumn
On Autumnal Equinox 2020by Michael DoyleThe world speaks of falling backThe world thinks on falling backYet, it is that as Fall comes to lockWe enter our Southward EquinoxThe Sun has shifts its celestial destinationNo longer balanced in the Libra constellationIt … Continue reading
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Tagged Algnment, Alone, Ancient, Autumn, Autumn Leaves, Blessing, Cardinal Point, Celestial, Change, Climatic, Colors, Constellation, Crown, Equinox, Expect, Fall Back, Falling Down, Farewell, Festival, Fragment, Gain, Good Cheer, Ground, Harvest Home, Holy, Hour, Libra, Life, Lock, Midpoint, Neglect, Oak King, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Seasons, Segment, Shadow, Shelter, Southward Equinox, Speak, Summer, Sun, Thanksgivign, Think, Turn, Virgo, Wane, Wheel of the Year, World
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Be Your Own Hero
Be Your Own Heroby Michael DoyleIncurable as a dreaming heroStubborn as a seeming zeroWe play our parts in masqueradeEach day lived within its charadeHiding ourselves behind the music we playCaught up in front of screens all dayBecause we cannot be … Continue reading
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