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Blogging is a form of activism. You can be an agent of change.

E. A. Able — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:35:51 +0000

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.

I am the people – the mob – the crowd – the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

E. Able — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:37:38 +0000

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.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing

E. A. Able — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:35:27 +0000

"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..."

Once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters

E. A. Able — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:49:56 +0000

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...

Writing Prompt – December 12, 2011

E. A. Able — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:50:44 +0000

QuoteSnack offers fresh quotes several days a week, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, I’ll sometimes post a writing prompt with simple instructions. The next post will be a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities in how someone […]

If I tell you I’m no good, you know I’m lying

E. A. Able — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:57:23 +0000

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

E. A. Able — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:41:21 +0000

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.

Housekeeping ain’t no joke

E. A. Able — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:38:03 +0000

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...

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour

E. A. Able — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 07:39:48 +0000

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 - auguries that challenge us to be aware...

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

E. Able — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:02:58 +0000

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...