This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery
Association | Chance | Life | Life | Little | Men | Prosperity | Association |
What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how, and to whom to say things.
Experience | Knowledge | Life | Life | Nothing | Prosperity | Will | Learn |
Once Rama gives his word, that is final and it is kept at any cost. There is no question of repetition of the same a second time.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Sometimes faith traveling incognito.
Day | Prosperity |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The reason deceives us more often than nature.
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Nothing | Prosperity |
Tristan Bernard, born Paul Bernard
To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Argument | Better | Honesty | Men | Motives | Prosperity | Think | Understand |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Action | Confidence | Fear | Life | Life | Obligation | Security | Sense | Spirit | Time |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Famous | Prosperity |
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
Confidence | Temper |
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
God | Man | Peace | Prosperity | God |
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
Good | Moderation | People | Prosperity | Moderation |
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Confidence | Love |
Hakuin, fully Hakuin Akaku NULL
Yeah, we can attain supreme wisdom and enlightment while sitting at home, sipping tea, studying our favourite books, but will that great wisdom last until next morning?
Evil | Prosperity | Right |
War comes today as the result of one of three causes: either actual or threatened wrong by one country to another, or suspicion by one country that another intends to do it wrong ... or, from bitterness of feeling, dependent in no degree whatever upon substantial questions of difference. . . . The least of these three causes of war is actual injustice.
Brotherhood | Charity | Desire | Duty | Individual | Judgment | Love | Malice | People | Progress | Prosperity | Regard | Sentiment | Happiness |