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Imagine Love, Live Love
Imagine Love, Live Loveby Michael DoyleImagine all love if you wouldAll His Love, if you only couldImagine if you can Heaven’s placeWhere God’s kingdom, we could embraceParables are stories with heavenly meaningTo learn kernels of truth for every human beingWhere … Continue reading
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Tagged Clear, Faith, Glory, God's Kingdom, Good Soil, Hard Truths, Hear, Heaven, His Love, Imagine Love, Intention, Kernels of Truth, Live Love, Parables, Path, Poetry and Poems, Seed, Thought, Truth, View
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Thought For the Day: Every Attempt To Gag the Free Expression of Thought Is An Unsocial Act Against Society
“Every attempt to gag the free expression of thought is an unsocial act against society. That is why judges and juries who try to enforce such laws make themselves ridiculous.” – Jay Fox (1870-1961)
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Tagged Enforce, Every Attempt, Free Expression, Gag, Jay Fox, Judges, Juries, Law, Ridiculous, Society, Thought, Thought For the Day, Unsocial Act
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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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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom of Speech
“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” -Benjamin Franklin (1722)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, First Principles, Freedom, Freedom of Speech, No Such Thing, Public Liberty, Thought, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: There Is Not Less Wit Nor Less Invention In Applying Rightly A Thought One Finds In A Book, Than In Being the First Author of That Thought
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” – Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706)
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Tagged Apply, Book, First Author, Invention, Not Less, Pierre Bayle, Thought, Thought For the Day, Wit
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With A Kiss To the Heart
With A Kiss To the Heartby Michael DoyleWith a kiss to the heartMy love woke with a startThinking on the words saidAnd waking parts thought deadSpeaking ’til early mornMy soul became a smile wornUntil it reaches my faceFinding what it … Continue reading
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Tagged Coffee, Compose, Days, Dream n, Early Morn, Face, Forgot, Form, Gone, Halo, Heart, Heaven, Hello, Hopeful, Kiss, Look Away, Man, My Life's Song, My Love, Passion, Patiently, Poetry and Poems, Prayers, Pull Away, Replace, Rewarm, Say, Slip By, Smile, Soul, Speaking, Start, Stay, Thinking, Thought, Too Long, Try, Wait, Words
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Compliment That Was Ever Paid Me Was When One Asked Me What I Thought, and Attended To My Answer
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” – Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
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Tagged Answer, Ask, Attended, Compliment, Henry David Thoreau, Paid, Thought, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Our Whole Constitutional Heritage Rebels At the Thought of Giving Government the Power To Control Men’s Minds
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Constitutional Heritage, Control, Films, First Amendment, Government, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Means, Minds, No Business, Power, Read, Rebel, State, Thought, Thought For the Day, Watched
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Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?
Weren’t Those the Teenaged Years?by Michael DoyleThe teenaged yearsOf Saturday night solitudeWas a parade of smiles and tearsAnd many dramasWaiting to intrudeInto the happiness that cameAnd that provided the frameIn moments of ShakespeareThat kept us awakeMaking us braver than our … Continue reading
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Tagged Along the Way, Awake, Bless, Bolder, Brave, Broken Hearts, Choosing, Complexity, Confide, Contemplative, Dramas, Each Step, Edge, Edit, False Starts, Fear, Fight, Frame, Garden Variety, Good, Happiness, Hesitations, Hide, Human Beings, Inquisitive, Intrude, Issues, Losing, Million Ways, Moments, Negatives, Older, Passing By, Poetry and Poems, Positive, Questions, Saturday Night, Secrets, Seen, Shakespeare, Sigh, Smiles and Tears, Solittude, Souls, Take, Tears, Teenaged Years, Thinking, Thought, Tissues, Unseen, Walks, Wars of Love, Wobble, World, Younger Days
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The Importance of the Word
The Importance of the Wordby Michael DoyleIn this roll of yearsSoftly past the flowing tearsI think on words soughtTo connect the dot-to-dotThe words in mindI seek and sometimes findThat words are cultureAnd culture is the we nurtureSlipped into this elasticityIs … Continue reading
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