This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.
Kautilya, aka Chanakya or Vishnu Gupta NULL
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
A person with a bad name is already half hanged, saith the old proverb.
God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.
Eldridge Cleaver, fully Leroy Eldridge Cleaver
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.
Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
Education is not so important as people think.
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the actions of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a supernatural Being.
Achievement | Beauty | Conduct | Good | Harmony | Important | Thought | Beauty | Old | Thought |
Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown
We all have stories we tell ourselves. We tell ourselves we are too fat, too ugly, or too old, or too foolish. We tell ourselves these stories because they allow us to excuse our actions, and they allow us to pass off the responsibility for things we have done-maybe to something within our control, but anything other than the decisions we have made.
Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.
So tedious is this day as is the night before some festival To an impatient child that hath new robes And may not wear them. Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, you owe me no subscription: then let fall your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave, a poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man: but yet I call you servile ministers, that have with two pernicious daughters join'd your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head so old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!
I am a better person when I have less on my plate.