This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Good advice may be communicated, but not good manners.
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.
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One has to know joy and pain to recognize happiness and misfortune.
Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Advice | Inevitable | People |
Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born You and the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become them.
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There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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O friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee!
Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
The rest of you... keep banging the rocks together.
Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Never was any considerable good or evil done without producing its like. We imitate good actions through emulation; and bad ones through the evil of our nature, which shame conceals, but example sets at liberty.
There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it; nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.
Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.
Advice | Literature | Nothing | Safe |
Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death