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First Principles: I Think Our Governments Will Remain Virtuous For Many Centuries; As Long As They Are Chiefly Agricultural
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.”– Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison (1787)
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Searching For Reasons Why
Searching For Reasons Whyby Michael DoyleSearching for wordsThat just won’t comeHoping for a pocketful of miraclesBut finding noneThis is no way to spendThe moments leading to Christmas DayJust hoping for them to endCause they make no difference anywayTake another sip … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Believe, Blues, Cards, Chair, Christmas, Christmas Day, Comfort, Could, Cry, Daughters, David, Die, Difference, Dream, Dreams, Drenched, End, Father, Give, Gone, Good, Half, Happy, Hard, Hearts, Hope, Knocked Back, Lack, Life, Life's Pain, Long, Moments, None, Nudge, Pocketful of Miracles, Poetry and Poems, Pouring Rain, Read, Reasons, Rhyme, Sadness, Seams, Searching, Shoulders, Sip, Snowman, Spend, Stand, Stars, Table, Think, Time, Watch, Why, Without A Reason Why, Words
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(Questions of Life) However Inspired
(Questions of Life) However Inspiredby Michael DoyleHowever it was inspiredLife came to be firedSparked a billion years agoAnd continued on in its flowThough no man was there Science believes it clearNeurons appeared 400,000 year agoBut who can truly know?From the … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Days, Better Ways, Billion Years, Billion Years Ago, Brink, Brought Together, Courage, Darkness, Debate, Disbelief, Drink, Feeling the Fools, Fired, First Cause, Flashpoints, Flow, Formation, Full-Tilt, Gift, God, Handcuffed, Hands, Information, Inspired, Least Hesitation, Life, Losing Position, Lucy, Major Fail, Mature, Mother Nature, Near Miss, Necessary, Neurons, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Predators, Primordial, Question, Questions, Sad, Science, Smackdown, Splash, Stare, Think, Thought, Through, Time, Traction, Transition, Turned Out Better, Two Neurons, Warning, Wonder
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A Story’s End
A Story’s Endby Michael DoyleA story must be told through its endHowever little we think that we can defendAs the hero struggles to free himself from chainsWhile holding onto the dreams of the morning rainsIt’s hard to cut through the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger and Fear, Attendant Lies, Blur, Chains, Charade, Cut, Defend, Dreams, End, Grow, Hero, Hidden Road, Humanity, Ignorance, Maturity, Morning Rains, Offense, Paid In Full, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Security, Story, Struggle, Think, Tired Eyes, Travel, Truth
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First Principles: I Think We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson (1824)
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Tagged First Principles, Government, Indutrious, Labor, Live, Machinery, Necessary, Parasites, Think, Thomas Jefferson
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If the Truth…
If the Truth…by Michael DoyleIf the truth is to be unpleasant Let it be spoken in a bold voiceKeeping focused on the presentNot a stumbled mumble as if not a choiceIt is better that the disagreeableBe out there and quickly … Continue reading
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Tagged Avoid, Avoidance, Bad, Better, Bit By Bit, Bold Voice, Choice, Conceivable, Cycle, Dear, Deception, Disaagreeable, Done, Ear, End of Nature, Fear, Focus, Happy, If, Laws and Statutes, Life, Love, Malice, Moment, Mumble, Nibble, Pacify, Poetry and Poems, Present, Quick, Quick Usee, Reason, Reception, Sad, Seasonal, Seek, Spoken, The Cause, Think, Time, Torment, Truth, Unpleasant, Victory, Well Used, Wisdom, Won
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The Artful Conflict
The Artful Conflictby Michael DoyleHumanity is invariably drawn to the good fightAnd it is unorthodox when it is brought to lightThat a southpaw stance taken can bring true valueTo all of us sinners, even me and youBlessed are the peacemakers … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Art, Ask, Avoid, Best Follow, Best Time, Biting and Breaking, Blessed, Breakers, Build Up, Cause, Complicate, Concept, Conflict, Contribution, Cut, Desires Within, Destroy, Drawn, Enjoy, Even Flow, Fakers, Fix, Follow, Forgiveness, God, God's Shadow, Good fight, Grow, Hard Work, Harsh Elements, Hearts, Humanity, Humility, Impact, Learn, Light, Makers, Me and You, Movers and Shakers, Natural, Neighbors, One Family, Path, Peaceful, Peaceful Resolution, Peacemakers, Poetry and Poems, Pressure, Quarrels and Fights, Realize, Redundant, Relationship, Retribution, Right Attitudes, Rightful Worship, Said and Done, Selves, Show, Sideways, Sin, Sinners, Skill Set, Skills, Sleepless Nights, Soul, Southpaw Stance, Start, Strive, Tendencies, The Son, Think, True Value, Unorthodox, Valuable Contributions, Wars Around Us, Wars Within, Win, World
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Waking To the Smell of Coffee
Waking To the Smell of Coffeeby Michael DoyleWhat if life could be seenBy every single human beingPut out as if a streaming movie?Would we still want to be you and me?Or is this an awful possibilityAnd we’d want to buy … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, AI, Allow, Attack, Aware, Axe, Better, Blame, Buffoons, Build, Buy, Capture, Careful, Categorically, Change, Chapter and Verse, Choice, Choose, Coffee, Compromise, Computers and Phones, Confront, Contract, Daft, Define, Devices, Dignity, Ding and Slight, Done Away, Entire System, Errant, Favor, Fictive Level, Final Deal, Front-Door, Full-Flow, Gamed, Gone, Good, hands and Minds, Hate, Human Being, Images, Integrity, Lack, Laugh, Legacy, Legitimacy, Life, Litigous, Lived, Lives, Madhouse, Mesmerized Engagement, Modern Age, Monster, Name, Natural Fact, Okay, Ought, Pages, Paramenters, Parts and Portions, Person, Poetry and Poems, Portray, Possibility, Proud, Real, Rearrange, Reclaim, Reclaimed, Refuse, Reveal, Right, Rights, Roles, Scenes, See, Selective, Self-Written, Shreds, Smell, Star, Streaming Movie, Suffer, Take Our Lives Back, Tell, Terms and Conditions, Think, Thought, Truth, Vices, Victims, Victor's Crown, Wake, Want, Well-Lived, Williing, Wish, World, Worse, You and Me
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Thought For the Day: Don’t Be Seduced Into Thinking That That Which Does Not Make A Profit Is Without Value
“Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.” – Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)
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