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To Truly Belong
Second poem mostly absorbed from watching the new Mowgali Jungle Book movie on Netflix: To Truly Belong by Michael Romani The fruit there hangs low And don’t you know Life can make a monkey out of you In all of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashes, Bees, Belong, Broken, Change, Dash, Distortion, Dream, Ebb and Flow, Eyes, Fear, Float, Fruit, Green, Harmony, Hope, Jungle, Jungle Book, Know, Life, Meaning, Melody, Monkey, Mowgali, Neftlix, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Proportion, Prove, Revelation, Scenery, Season, Song, Sorrow, Swarm, Thunder, Tomorrow, Trap, True, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: A Friend Is A Gift You Give Yourself
“A friend is a gift you give yourself.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
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Tagged Friend, Gift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Self, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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First Principles: If Persons Leading America Stick To Our Republican Values, Our Nation Will Have A Solid Foundation
“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men … Continue reading
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Tagged Excellence, First Principles, Fortitude, Foundation, Government, Knowledge, Moderation, Patience, Permanent, Perserverance, Persons, Samuel Adams, Simple Manners, Sobriety, Solid, Supreme Being, Temperance, Wisdom
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Still the Monkey Grins
The world has a monkey on its back. It’s the darkness inside us all. https://flic.kr/p/q4tKWX Still the Monkey Grins by Michael Romani Born innocent Victims to the sins The sins of the father Eden’s fall set the precedent Banished, cast … Continue reading
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Tagged Amorality, Bitten, Blame, Bled, Born, Cast, Children, Collateral Damage, Crime, Cut, Darkness, Eden, Evil, Exile, Father, Fault, Flesh, Grin, Hell, Innocent, Inside, Life, Lightening, Mephisto's Waltz, Monkey, Monster, Paid, Pawns, Peace, Photograph, Plans, Poem, Poetry, Question, Science, Scream, Selfish, Sin, Societal Stress, Strife, Tombstone, Truth, Victim, Voices, Wisdom, World, Wrong
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First Principles: Think and Act For Yourself and Our Nation In the Pursuit of Right Over Wrong
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775) … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, First Principles, Learn, Nation, Pursuit of Knowledge, Read, Reason, Right and Wrong, Self, Think, Thomas Jefferson, Truth, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Wisdom Is the Product of Lifetime Not Schooling
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but the product of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” – Albert Einstein
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Tagged Acquire, Albert Einstein, Effort, Lifelong, Product, Schooling, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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First Principles: The Aim of Every Constitution Should Be To Obtain Governance By the Wise and Virtuous
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.” – James Madison (1788) … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Common Good, Constitution, Discern, First Principles, Governance, James Madison, Pursuit, Society, Virtue, Wisdom
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Thought For the Day: Aphorisms Only Briefly Disturb the Wisdom of Silence
“Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly.” – Yahia Lababidi, aphorist (b. 25 Sep 1973)
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Tagged Aphorism, Brief, Disturb, Respect, Silence, Thought For the Day, Wisdom, Yahia Lababidi
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