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Thought For the Day: Truth Is So Obscure In These Times, and Falsehood So Established, That Unless We Love the Truth, We Cannot Know It
“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” – Blaise Pascal
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Thought For The Day: Sometimes People Don’t Want To Hear the Truth Because They Don’t Want Their Illusions Destroyed
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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Rural America
Rural Americaby Michael DoyleDespite the beauty of the scenery,There are challenges in this community.There is more here than the movies showAnd the truth is there’s more to know. There’s a harsh struggle in the economy.Jobs are scarce and the people … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Challenges, Community, Country Living, Economy, Ground, Harsh, Instant, Jobs, Main Street, Memory, Movies, Poetry and Poems, Rural America, Scenery, Show, Simple Life, Skill Set, Social Isolation, Socialization, Truth, Wheels
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Thought For the Day: When You Have Eliminated the Impossible, Whatever Remains, However Improbable, Must Be the Truth
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”. -Arthur Conan Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Elimination, Impossible, Improbable, Remain, Sherlock Holmes, Thought For the Day, Truth
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First Principles: The Greatest Kindness One Can Render To Any Man Consists In Leading Him From Error To Truth
“The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.” – Thomas Aquinas
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Poetry Is Simple
Poetry Is Simpleby Michael DoyleShe said writing poems is simple,Just write what you want to say.Then suddenly, it’s simple,Or so the natural-born poets say.They try to give the secret away,As if it were something of the everyday.Yet, what’s missing is … Continue reading
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Tagged Authenticity, Believe, Child's Face, Choked Up, Connection, Everyday, Fighting To Survive, Intrude, Life, Life's Struggles, Lonely Child, Loving Family, Making Food, Missing Clarity, Mother's Embrace, Natural-Born Poet, Negation, Play, Poems, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Rejection, Say, Secret, Shared, Simple, Sorrow, Stay Above, Thought, Time and Again, Truth, Worse, Writing, Yesterday
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Of War and Valor
Of War and Valorby Michael DoyleThe things of this world come in complexity.What some face causes others frayed anxiety.When we versify in earnest, we find the truth.It can be as frustrating as an elder as it was in youth.It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Brutality, Citizen Soldiers, Complexity, Confront, Counter-Oopinions, Desparate, Divided Nation, Duty, Earnest, Ends, Explanation, Fight, Friends, Frustrateion, Hike, Humanity, Idealism, Libht, Poetry and Poams, Sacrifice, See, Truth, Valor, War, World
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Thought For the Day: To Be Persuasive, We Must Be Believable; To Be Believable, We Must Credible; To Be Credible, We Must Be Truthful. It’s As Simple As That
“American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must … Continue reading
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Tagged American Ethic, American Tradition, Belieable, Credible, Edward R. Murrow, Lies, Peersuasive, Simple, Thought For the Day, Truth, Truthful, Worsst
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From High To Low
From High To Lowby Michael DoyleToo many people believe in the nicheAnd from there won’t budge an inch.Truth? It pays to know about everythingBecause then, you can choose what to bringTo the party of life’s extremes.From this, you can learn … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Absuidity, Accumulation, Beat, Believe, Born, Budge, Despite, Developed, Dreams, Extraordinary, Extremes, Fusion, High, History, Horn, Improvised, Inch, Jazz, Know, Legendary, Low, Miss, More, Music, Nation, Needed, Niche, Ordinary, Plain English, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Richness, Sensibility, Skill Set, Spread, Street Urchin, Syncopated, Truth, Wise, Writing
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