This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I like long and unusual words, and anybody who does not share my tastes is not compelled to read me. Policemen and politicians are under some obligation to make themselves comprehensible to the intellectually stunted, but not I. Let my prose be tenebrous and rebarbative; let my pennyworth of thought be muffled in gorgeous habilements; lovers of Basic English will look to me in vain.
Obligation | Thought | Will | Thought |
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, aka Vatican II
There was no need to call a council merely to hold discussions of that nature. What is needed at the present time is a new enthusiasm, a new joy and serenity of mind in the unreserved acceptance by all of the entire Christian faith, without forfeiting that accuracy and precision in its presentation which characterized the proceedings of the Council of Trent and the First Vatican Council. What is needed, and what everyone imbued with a truly Christian, Catholic and apostolic spirit craves today, is that this doctrine shall be more widely known, more deeply understood, and more penetrating in its effects on men's moral lives. What is needed is that this certain and immutable doctrine, to which the faithful owe obedience, be studied afresh and reformulated in contemporary terms. For this deposit of faith, or truths which are contained in our time-honored teaching is one thing; the manner in which these truths are set forth (with their meaning preserved intact) is something else. This, then, is what will require our careful, and perhaps too our patient, consideration. We must work out ways and means of expounding these truths in a manner more consistent with a predominantly pastoral view of the Church's teaching office.
Conduct | Eternal | Life | Life | Men | Mortal | Obligation | Purpose | Purpose | Regard | Right |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
This administration is totally colorblind.
Blame | Children | Circumstances | Destroy | Dreams | Extravagance | History | Inevitable | Obligation | Past | Position | Teach | Thrift | Will | Yielding | Learn |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)
Belief | Government | Land | Obligation | Rights | Government |
Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.
Obligation | Words | World |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
Debt | Health | Means | Obligation | Sacred |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.
Destiny | Humanity | Obligation | Sacred | Will |
What makes us holy and pleasing to God is what our vocation demand of us, and not what our own will chooses.
Acceptance | Obligation |
Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.
Excellence | Man | Obligation | Reverence | Service | Witness | Worship | Excellence |
In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last resort.
Authority | Obligation | Rights | Child |
Our Sages were enemies of ignorance. They regarded education, intellectual enlightenment, and the acquisition of knowledge as the first of all moral commandments. They viewed the dissemination of intellectual enlightenment among all classes of the population as the prime concern of the nation, and the training of a child's mind as the first and most sacred duty of fatherhood. They considered it a matter of conscience for every Jewish father to see that his child should not remain a boor and am ha'arets; no Jewish child must be allowed to grow up as an ignorant, uneducated person.
Children | Evil | Fulfillment | Isolation | Nations | Need | Obligation | Order | People | Practice | Praise | Purpose | Purpose | Redemption | Vows | Torah |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
Gratitude | Inferiority | Obligation | Recompense |
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Love | Mind | Obligation |
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct... and to refrain from destruction.
Attention | Body | Circumstances | Destroy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Men | Nature | Necessity | Obligation | Power | Present | Public | Reality | Rule | Soul | Thought | Time | Will | World | Thought |
It is because of my wretchedness that I am I. It is on account of the wretchedness of the universe that, in a sense, God is I (that is to say a person).
Chance | Eternal | Hunger | Obligation |
It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.
Life | Life | Men | Obligation | Power | Public | Understand |