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A Graduated Conflict of Morality
A Graduated Conflict of Moralityby Michael DoyleThe late 1960s were a time of generational conflictWith more moral questions than principles to inflictRestrictions on all the choices between the rightAnd wrong of what was needed to get through the nightTo some, … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Blown Smoke, Choice, Clean Cut, Cling, Conflict, Daylight, Echoes, Experience, Fading Sight, Forgot, Generational Conflict, Graduate, Hues, Late 1960s, Life, Lost Passages, Measure, Merit, Moral Questions, Morality, Motivation, Neon Signs, Night, Pleasure, Pockets of Poetry, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Pointed Vieews, Principles, Question, Quirky, quotes, Restrictions, Revealing, Right, Search, Smile, Souls, Sounds of Silence, Spirituality, Stay the Same, Stuck In A Rut, Stupid, Time, Vision, Waves of Feeling, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The World Is Filled With Acts of Bravery and Stupidity, They Are Often One and the Same
“The world is filled with acts of bravery and stupidity, they are often one and the same.” – James Jones
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Tagged Brave, Fill, James Jones, Often, One and the Sam, Stupid, Thought For the Day, World
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A Father’s Fight
A Father’s Fightby Michael DoyleI may be stupidBut I’m never dumbI might even beSmarter than someThere are times I’m afraidAnd other times, braveTo Hell with the plans they’ve madeIt’s my America that I fight to saveI am part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afraid, Always, America, Brave, Class, Days of My Youth, Dumb, Fate, Father, Fight, Grass, Great, Hell, Hill to Hill, Integrity, Justice, Known, Liberty, Love of Righteousness, Made, Nation, Patience, Persistance, Plans, Poetry and Poems, Resistance, Save, Smarter, Some, Stand, Stupid, Sweet Freedom, Time, Trees, Truth
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On the Tipping Point of Stupid
On the Tipping Point of Stupidby Michael DoyleOf all the thoughts on thought contributedThere it is on the tipping point of stupidThe calling of names that should bring shameYet, there it is in politics as if a gameSpeaking of trickle … Continue reading
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Tagged Against the Grain, Alinsky, Better, Dialogue, Election Points, Game, Media, Milieu, Names, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Reason, Rhetoric, Role, Season, Shame, Smart, Stategy, Stupid, Talking Heads, Talking Reason, The People, Think, Thought, Tipping Point, Together, Tragedy, Trickle Down Idoicy
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Kept In A Hillside Perspective
Kept In A Hillside Perspectiveby Michael DoyleI’ve heard a lot of jokesAbout being close to inbredIt’s the kind of a thingThat rolls around in my headOver and over againPlaying a memory’s allusionAgainst something, I can’t defendAs I have been searching … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Allusion, Awkward, Believe, Born, Burn, City Folk, Come True, Comfortably Grown, Confusion, Cool, Country Folks, Defend, Discerned, Dreams, Driven, Every Inch, Forgotten, Go Through, Grief Lived, Head, Helps Keep Things In Perspective, Her time, Hillbillies, Hills, Hillside, Hope Given, Hurts, Incendiary, Inisde, Joke, Kept, Learn, Legendary, Lessons Learned, Life, Little Battles of Life, Lived, Lord Wills, Loud and Proud, Make It, Me, Memory, Momma, Mother's Knee, My Momma, Never Lived, Nobody, Only Listen, Other Names, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Powerfully, Pre-School, Presence of the Lord, Proud But Few, Quietly Fought In, Read, Reflective, Reminded, Rocky Road, Search, Shames, Sound, Stupid, There, Things Said, This Moment, Told, Unfortunate, Want To, West Virginia
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First Principles: A Bureaucrat Is the Most Despicable Person – Often Petty, Dull and Not To Be Trusted
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Bureacrat, Crafty, Delight, Despicable, Dull, First Principles, Holder, Mankind, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Need, Oppressor, Petty, Resemble, Stupid, Thief, Trust, Viscious, Vulture, Witless
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