"Do the thing and the power will come."

-- Thomas A. Edison

“Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Ã‰owyn!”
“We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.”
“When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again,”
“Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.”
“... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.”
“Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.”
“The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.”
“I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.”

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