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Blank Verse
Blank Verseby Michael DoyleThe other day, I went to the libraryWith no intention to become contraryAnd picked up a famed anthologyOf poetry to see what it might teach meI’m sorry to say that it seems perverseWhen someone writes poetry in … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Anthology, Best, Blank Verse, Capability, Confuse, Contrary, Create, Days, Detection, Dramatic Monologue, Emphasis, Essay, Essays Incomplete, Functionality, Grammatically, Half-Stated Thoughts, Hearts, Incomplete, Intention, Lazy, Library, Meaning, Methods, Perverse, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Replete, Reward, Rhyme, Rhythm, Romantic, Said, Souls, Spatters, Specific Grandeur, Teach Me, Test, Time, Trolls, Waste, Ways, Wonder, Word Patterns
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The Search of Civilization
The Search of Civilizationby Michael DoyleEarth’s civilizationsReach into spaceIn the search For new life That we can embraceUntil with devastationAnd with wasteWe have, as we will,As we have always findAs we have always foundAnother peaceful civilizationToWearDown…Into tatters and discardIn the … Continue reading
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Tagged Always Found, Civilization, Destiny, Devastation, Discard, Earth, Embrace, Find, Manifeststed, New Life, Peaceful Civilization, Poetry and Poems, Search, Space, Tatters, Waste, Wear Down, Will
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Thought For the Day: What of All the Entrepreneurs That Fail? Well, Many Do, Particularly the Successful Ones
“Some people, even in my own country, look at the riot of experiment that is the free market and see only waste. What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones. Often several times. And … Continue reading
First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretense of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Cooper, 1802
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Tagged First Principles, Government, Happy, Labors, Must, Pretense, Prevent, Taking Care, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Waste
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First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretense of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)
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Tagged First Principles, Government, Happy, Labor, Pretense, Prevent, Taking Care, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Waste
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To Lean Out of Wandering
To Lean Out of Wanderingby Michael DoyleLiving out the days of my back fortyKnowing that the end may come shortlyLike Moses, I lift my hands in prayerLiving a moment of taking proper careHaving learned to number my precious daysI long … Continue reading
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Tagged Affirmation, Back Forty, Bases, Celebration, Confirmation, Days, Decisions, East, Embrace, Failsures, Focus, Forgiven, Future, Ghosts, God's Ways, Gone, Grain, Hands, Haste, Hourglass, Important Battles, Joy, Juggle, Lean, Live, Living Our Prayer, Manage, Moment, Moments, Moses, Need, New Morning, Nowhere, Number, Nurture, Pains, Past, Paths, Play, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Procrastination, Proper Care, Questions, Reason, Regret, Reset, Rhymes, Season, Seed, Self-Defeating, Shortly, Sins, Sow, Stock, Test, The End, Thief of Time, Time, Today, Traces, Wandering, Waste, West, Wheel, Wisdom
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Thought of the Day: Your Time Is Limited, So Don’t Waste It Living Someone Else’s Life
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner … Continue reading
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Tagged Become, Courage, Dogma, Everything Else, Heart, Important, Inner Voice, Intuition, Know, Life, Limited, Living, Noise, Opinions, Result, Secondary, Someone Else, Steve Jobs, Thinking, Thought For the Day, Waste, Your Time
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First Principles: If We Were To Remove the Bible From Public Schools We Would Be Wasting So Much Time Punishing Crimes and Taking So Little Pains To Prevent Them
“If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.” – Benjamin Rush
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, Bible, Crimes, First Principles, Little Pain, Prevent, Public Schools, Punish, Remove, Time, Waste, We
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Developing Public Policy and the Fight For the Right To Repair
Post-modernism has created a throwaway society which squanders nonrenewable resources. In attempt to alleviate this, society turned to recycling. However, this attempt has not proven cost-effective and has led to dumping recyclables on nations such as China and the Philippines … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Basic Economic and Social Right, Broken, China, Collaboration, Consumer Privacy, Contractual Law, Cooperation, Cost-Effective, Cross Contamination, Domestic Program, Durable Repairable Goods, Economic Health, Economic Policy, Economy, Energy, Environment, Environmental Protection, Errors, European Union, Federal Poverty Line, Fight, Foreign Policy, Governance, Governmental Mandates, Health Risk, Innovation, Marxism, Nonrenewable Resources, Plastics, Policy Griclock, Political Factors, Post-Modernism, Public Policy, Recycling, Restoration, Returning Manufacturing Back To American Shores, Right To Repair, Rising Cost of Living, Sword Policy, The Philippines, Thought For the Day, Throwaway Society, Tinker, Tools, Waste
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Streets Ahead
Life is a confined period of time. Who knows truly what’s next. Even if you believe in the God of the Bible, you find that there is disagreement as to how after life happens. With this in mind, I thought … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahead, Cool, Doorway, Humor, Learn, Life, Me, Moment, Next, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Precisely, Reach, Say, School, Sense, She, Smile, Something Said, Stood, Streets, Supply and Demand, Teach, Think, Time, Truth, Understand, Universal, Waste, Wise, Wisely
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