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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Coercision, Error, First Pricniiples, Government, Inquisitors, Opinion, Support, Thomas Jefferson, Truth
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Jack’s Winter Glory
Jack’s Winter Gloryby Michael DoyleOnce upon a winter’s snowflakeThere was a Christmas wish to makeThere in that distant time and placeThere was magic for all to embraceAs tyranny suppressed simple peasantsUntil they could not afford Christmas presentsThe czar took every … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Arrive, Bells, Between the Mountains, Breeze, Christmas Wish, Countryside, Czar, Daydreams, Fountains, Fraction, Ground, Jack Frost, Magic, Mind, Nation, One of A Kind, Peasant, Please, Plenty, Poetry and Poems, Presents, Seams, Smiles, Snow, Snowflake, Snowstorms, Survive, Time and Place, Truth, Warm, Winter Glory, Wonderland, Worst of Times
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Thought For the Day: When Money Speaks, the Truth Keeps Silent
“When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.” – Russian proverb
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Tagged Carl Sandburg, Money, Russian Proverb, Silent, Speaks, Thought For the Day, Truth
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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself
“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
A Truth Told
A Truth Toldby Michael Doyle Trapped within lies within liesA truth illuminates under artificial skiesAnd the pain makes for the better manIt’s a script a believer can understand Meant, as it is, to make us believeThough written so carefully as … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Alive, Anguish, Answer, Artificial Skies, Beginning, Believe, Better Man, Breaking My Heart, Broken Life, Cancer, Clever, Complexity, Construct, Construction, Deceive, Dexterity, Eggs, Faith, Fools, Forgiving, Found, Frames Per Second, Game, Illusory, Imporbable, Lies, Living, Mass Destruction, Meant, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reflection, Reveals, Revolt, Rules, Script, Self-Destruct, Start, Trapped, Truth, Truth Told, Understand, Vault, Win
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Steadfast Against the Culture
Steadfast Against the Cultureby Michael DoyleThere are two kinds of believersThose committed to the Bible and deceiversSome are guided by the Holy Spirit to aspireAnd then there are the carnally minded led by desireThere are two types of ways to … Continue reading
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Tagged Affection, Applied, Aspire, Attention, Believers, Bible, Carnally Minded, Christ, Cling, Confident, Conversation, Culture, Daily Bread, Deceivers, Desire, Direction, Disobedience, Eyes, God, Godly Life, Heaven Sent, Holy Spirit, Influence, Joy, Just Compensation, Light, Lived Or Died, Living By the Word, Love, Mangled, Measure, Nurture, Obedience, Peace, Personal Observation, Poetry and Poems, Read, Renew, Retention, Serious Intent, Service, Sin, Steadfast, Talk, Trust, Truth, Two Kinds, Walk
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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily
“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)
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Tagged First Principles, George Washington, One, Pursue, Seek, Steadily, Straight Course, Truth
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Thought For the Day: I Don’t Think That Combat Has Ever Been Written About Truthfully; It Has Always Been Described In Terms of Bravery and Cowardice
“I don’t think that combat has ever been written about truthfully; it has always been described in terms of bravery and cowardice. I won’t even accept these words as terms of human reference any more. And anyway, hell, they don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Aceept, Bravery, Combat, Cowardice, Human Reference, James Jones, Modern Warfare, Terms, Thought For the Day, Truth, Written
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In the Tomes of Humanity
In the Tomes of Humanityby Michael DoyleAlgorithms of simplicityMakeup humanity’s complexityWith habits easy enough to understandAs the madness takes over as plannedMost waiver between love and prideSometimes this happens to coincideThen there are the exceptions irreducibleThat’s what’s become of the … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Algorithms, Brave Souls, Broken Bodies, Choice, Codices, Coincide, Competitive Advantages, Complexity, Contemptible, Cost, Countless, Coup, Death, Doom, Exceptions, Face Off, False Promises, Final Battle, Garden, Habits, Humanity, Keeping, Last Breath, Libraries, Lost, Love, Madness, Mankind, Overcomes, Pain, Planned Obsolescence, Precipice, Price, Pride, Real Life, Recall, Sacred Door, Simplicity, Smile, Tomes, Truth, Understand, Victories, Villainies, Volumes, Waiver, Warrior's Voice, Weeping, Winner Take All, Wise Mother, Worth
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