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Decoration Day: a complaint or lamentation
Bang the drum and sound the horn! Wash and press the uniforms. From each window flags are flown; now the troops at last come home. Proud young sons and daughters, too; freedom’s torch they’ve borne for you. Through the world … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged complaint, daily poems, funerals, lamentation, military, mourning, patriotism, poetic forms, public service
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Suggestion for Philip Morris
I have been a smoker for a long time. You know, I’ve been watching these Philip Morris legislation required commercials advocating parental communication as the method for preventing children from smoking…and I’ve been thinking…while it is necessary for parents to … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged advertising, children, cigarettes, education, parenting, Philip Morris, PSA, public service, smoking
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Standards for Government Officials
What do you think of this? First: Liberality, generosity, charity. The representative should not have craving and attachment to wealth and property, but should give it away for the welfare of the people. Second: A high moral character. The representative … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged Buddhism, Dhammapadatthakatha, governments, Guatama Buddha, leadership, public service
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