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First Principles: The Press Is Impotent When It Abandons Itself To Falsehood, I Leave It To Others To Restore It To Its Strength, By Recalling It Within the Pale of Truth
“The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1805)
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Tagged Abandon, Falsehood, First Principles, Impotent, Leave, Pale of Truth, Press, Recall, Restore, Strength, Thomas Jefferson
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Overcoming the Flesh
Overcoming the Fleshby Michael DoyleHow then do we find our wayThroughout our present and everydayWhat then will bring us to joyThan in a buoyancy we can employIt is to live as if fully persuadedTo live the Christian life not evadedBut … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Believe, Buoyancy, Christian Life, Contentment, Control, Courage, Dedication, Devotion, Feel, Flesh, God's Love, Holy Spirit, Human Condition, Inspiration, Joy, Noble, Overcome, Path, Persuaded, Poetry and Poems, Receive, Resentment, Reveal, Soul, Still, Strength, Temptation, Trust, Waking Prayer
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On Behalf of the Uyghurs
On Behalf of the Uyghursby Michael DoyleGive me the whole of your sentence And I will still my will and serveGive me the entirety of your pretenseTell me what it is that I deserveAnd I will still write my poetryNever … Continue reading
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Tagged Banner, Behalf, Blossom, Bosom, Committing Verses, Conscience, Courage, Cried, Culture, Defend, Deserve, Encoourage, Endless Grief, Everything, Fade Away, Familiar Voice, Family, Fire n Throat, Flowers, Freedoms, Genocide, Gulnisa Imin, Hope, Human Contact, Integrity, Joined In Voice, Language, Live Dead, Live Freely, Living Legacy, Make Us Friends, Manner, Memory, Moonless Nights, Patriotism, People's Rights, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Reeducation, Regret, Said, Sentence, Separatism, Serve, Shared Thoughts, Sharing Freedom's Plea, Sing Freely, Stars, Strength, Strokes of Penmanship, Stubborn Pride, Supress, Tenderness, Thoughts, Thousand Nights, Tribe of Poets, Truth of Peace, Uyghurs, Vital, WeChat Snippets, Wilderness, Yearn
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Recovering the Way To Self
Recovering the Way To Selfby Michael DoyleComing back from catastropheTakes the best of you and meStill you must move towardThis attitude to move forwardIn overcoming adversityThis is the challenge for you and meDramatic changes come and goThis is the path … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambitions, Best Information, Best of You and Me, Best Self, Bring, Catastrophe, Challenge, Changing Moments, Character, Dramatic Changes, Dreams, Ebbs and Flows, Extended Family, Favor, Focus, Forward, Full Transformation, Give, Goals, Going On, Going Through Something, Grateful, Journey, Latitude, Length, Life's Flow, Love, Mere Mortals, Moments of Weakness, Nobody Else, Odds, One Hundred, Overcoming Adversity, Path Back, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Recover, Self, Shaken, Share, Soul, Spaces, Steps, Strength, Strong, Superman, Talk, Tenacity, Toward, True Success, Trust, Walk the Walk
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First Principles: ‘Tis the Business of Little Minds to Shrink; But He Whose Heart Is Firm, and Whose Conscience Approves His Conduct, Will Pursue His Principles Unto Death
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Approve, Brave, Business of Little Minds, Conduct, Conscience, Death, Distress, Firm, First Principles, Heart, Mankind, Principles, Pursue, Reflection, Shrink, Smile, Strength, The Crisis No. 1, Thomas Paine, Trouble
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A Lament for Michael the Archangel
A Lament of Michael,the Archangelby Michael Doyle The day after celebrating the birth of a daughterI return again to the celebration of the FatherRevisiting instruction in the ways of the kingdomAnd a memory of the better man that I’ve become … Continue reading
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Tagged Archangel, Authority, Become, Better Man, Birth, Blessed Hour, Celebration, Compassion, Daughter, Deception, Defeat, Defender, Ends of the Earth, Father, Father's Feet, Head of the Church, Hell, Indwell, Instruction, Instrument, Jesus, Joy, Lament, Lessons, Memory, Michael, Michael the Archangel, Mirth, Peace, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Power, Power of God, Protector, Recall, Reminder, Satan and His Minions, Serpent, Sight, Sought, Strength, Taught, Time, Ultimately, Walk, Ways of the Kingdom, Wicked World, Wisdom, Witnesses
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Thought For the Day: The Inclusion of Transgender People Into Female Sport Cannot Be Balanced With Fairness Due To the Retained Differences in Strength, Stamina, and Physique That Are Present
“The inclusion of transgender people into female sport cannot be balanced with fairness due to the retained differences in strength, stamina and physique that are present when comparing the average female with the average transgender female/non-binary person who was assigned … Continue reading
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Tagged Average Female, Balanced, Co-Exist, Competition, Competitive Model, Fairness, Female Sport, Inclusion, Physicique, Retained Differences, Stamina, Strength, Testosterone Suppression, Thought For the Day, Transgender, World Swimming Coaches Association
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El Shaddai
El Shaddaiby Michael Doyle He is my refuge of my safetyIn how I put my trust in theeKeeping my peace and trustIn He who is always just El Shaddai quietly advancesIn all of life’s circumstancesAll of the world makes us … Continue reading
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Tagged Advance, Circumstances, El Shaddai, Fortress, Heavens Above, Holy Words, Inspired, Just, Life, Lord, Need, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Read, Refuge, Sacred Love, Safety, Strength, Tall, Tired, Trust, Walk, We, Wilderness, World
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First Principles: The Real Man Smiles In Trouble, Gathers Strength From Distress, and Grows Brave By Reflection
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” – Thomas Paine
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Tagged Brave, Distress, First Principles, Grow, Real Man, Reflection, Strength, Thomas Paine, Trouble
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Thought For the Day: The Force Which Makes For War Does Not Derive Its Strength From the Interested Motives of Evil Men; It Derives Its Strength From the Disinterested Motives of Good Men
“The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men.” -Norman Angell, lecturer, author, MP, and Nobel laureate (1872-1967)
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Tagged Derive, Disinterested Motives, Evil Men, Force, Good Men, Interested Motives, Makes, Norman Angell, Strength, Thought For the Day, War
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