Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Jan 18, 2012, 1:35 am
In the U.S. our legal system maintains that the burden of proof is on the accuser, and that people are innocent until proven guilty. This tenet seems to be on the chopping block when it comes to the web if these bills pass, as companies could shut down sites based on accusation alone.
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Jan 6, 2012, 2:37 am
I am the workingman, the inventor, the maker of the world’s food and clothes. I am the audience that witnesses history. The Napoleons come from me and the Lincolns. I am the seed ground. I am a prairie that will stand for much plowing. Terrible storms pass over me.
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Dec 16, 2011, 2:35 am
"How hard it is in some cases to be believed! And how impossible in others!" "But why should you wish to persuade me that I feel more than I acknowledge?" "That is a question which I hardly..."
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Dec 13, 2011, 2:49 am
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Dec 12, 2011, 9:50 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Dec 2, 2011, 2:41 am
We can get in touch with another person only by an attitude of unprejudiced objectivity. This may sound like a scientific precept, and may be confused with a purely intellectual and detached attitude of mind. But what I mean to convey is something quite different.
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Nov 29, 2011, 3:38 am
There was plenty of food in the larder, and, while Beth and Amy set the table, Meg and Jo got breakfast; wondering, as they did so, why servants ever talked about hard work...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Nov 28, 2011, 2:39 am
An "augury" is an omen, a sign of things to come. Augury can also be the practice of being sensitive to omens - like divination, or magical foresight. In this case, the poem is a series of pairs of lines that can be read as comparing good and evil, kindness and cruelty, beauty and corruption - augur...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Nov 25, 2011, 2:02 am
Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face... You must do that which you think you cannot do...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Nov 2, 2011, 2:40 pm
Art is the expression of the self; the more complicated and restrictive a method is, the less opportunity there is for expression of one's original sense of freedom. The techniques, although they play an important role in the earlier stage, should not be...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Nov 1, 2011, 6:50 am
Do you NaNoWriMo? This year, I am. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. Every November, from the stroke of one second after midnight on November first until the very last second of the very last hour of the month, participants pour themselves into writing. The goal is a 50,000 page novel – a...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 31, 2011, 7:55 am
He must escape from this power. And the means of escape every man had in his own hands. He had but to cut short this dependence on evil. And there was one means - death. And Levin, a happy father and husband, in perfect health...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 30, 2011, 8:43 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 29, 2011, 3:25 am
When you give in to the automatic fear reaction, it makes you focus on your weaknesses, which only reinforces your fear. But when you take the path of the intellect and spirit, you naturally begin to focus on your...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 28, 2011, 7:09 am
In one of the Buddha’s discourses, he talks about the four kinds of horses: the excellent horse, the good horse, the poor horse, and the really bad horse. The excellent ...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 27, 2011, 12:32 pm
If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 26, 2011, 5:01 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 21, 2011, 4:00 am
But if they were afraid of lemon meringue pie, this would be an irrational fear, because lemon meringue pie is delicious and has never hurt a soul. Being afraid of a monster under the bed is perfectly rational, because there may in fact be a monster under your bed at any time, ready to eat you all ...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 17, 2011, 5:18 pm
Silence spread around Tiffany, a living silence, while the sheep danced with their lambs and the world turned. Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 16, 2011, 3:15 am
Hester: You know I have loved him always. Mrs. Arbuthnot: But we were very poor...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 13, 2011, 3:10 am
Skeptics who continue to deride the global circulation models include Jack Hollander, emeritus professor of energy and resources at the University of California. In his most recent book, The Real Environmental crisis, Hollander opines that "computer simulations... do not provide an adequate basis f...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 10, 2011, 2:47 pm
And we said so because we had no business fighting there: we wanted to get away from the field of battle as soon as possible. 'We have lost, so we ought to run!' and we ran. If we had not said so until evening, God knows what would have happened. To-morrow we will not say so. You say of our position...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 9, 2011, 3:49 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 8, 2011, 4:17 am
I used to say over and over that the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. There is no reciprocity. Hate is always gratuitous, sterile. It is a powerful, insurmountable barrier that permits no intrusion. In other words, nothing good...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 6, 2011, 3:05 am
I'll invent a secret scroll lost by Egyptians and reveal its content: the directions to your house, recipes for forgiveness. History says my ventricles are stone alleys...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 5, 2011, 3:03 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 4, 2011, 7:35 am
...O'Keeffe wrote to William Milliken, director of the Cleveland Art Museum, in 1930: "I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun or the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint color I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the ...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 3, 2011, 3:27 am
How strange that we acquire tastes as we grow. Babies don’t like olives, mustard, hot pepper, beer, fruits that make one pucker, or coffee. After all...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 2, 2011, 3:41 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Oct 1, 2011, 9:57 pm
I wish you could come here and rest a year in the simple unmingled Love fountains of God. You would then return to your scholars with fresh truth gathered and absorbed from pines and waters and deep singing winds, and you would find that they all sang of fountain Love just as did...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 30, 2011, 7:20 am
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want ...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 29, 2011, 3:42 am
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 28, 2011, 3:29 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 27, 2011, 5:12 am
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 26, 2011, 3:43 am
Humans have come such a long way in such a brief time that our imaginations are irretrievably mired in the past. Perhaps, as seems to be the case with many American neoconservatives, they are trapped on the western frontier or in the last great war. For others they reside in a now obsolete nationa...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 25, 2011, 3:48 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 24, 2011, 3:21 am
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set....
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 23, 2011, 3:24 am
Coming to a rise he could see his own Hill in the distance, and he stopped suddenly and said: Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 22, 2011, 3:10 am
One should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportu...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 21, 2011, 3:11 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 20, 2011, 9:40 am
I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of the poetry is the way in. My poems often begin with a rhythm but without the words. A few words may come to you, and they may be ...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 19, 2011, 4:43 am
This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent Nat...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 18, 2011, 4:23 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 17, 2011, 5:44 am
There was little likelihood the Duncan posed a mortal threat, although this had to be left to such chance as existed. Leto had tried to explain this to one of the earlier Duncans… right here in this room. “You will think it strange that I, with my powers, can speak of luck and...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 16, 2011, 7:00 am
If you are not aware that what you are doing is wrong, then you will not feel ashamed of it. One is living in pure fantasy - a type of madness and total lack of objectivity. Which all comes down to an inability to face the truth. If you are living in a world where everything you do is ...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 15, 2011, 4:21 am
Leaders are not what many people think – people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 14, 2011, 4:48 am
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 13, 2011, 4:12 am
We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared. And where that language does not yet exist, it is our poetry which helps to...
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Elizabeth Able posted an article on QuoteSnack - Sep 12, 2011, 4:24 am
If I could wrap my Dad up in two words, it would be thundering tenderness. He's a man with the shortest temper I ever saw, and at the same time he's got the biggest heart. Some of the greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. He knows what's right and he...
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