This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.
Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they be married, too.
I want to work with the big orchestras. I want to have a big family.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. They are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
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No government as such is ever in favor of the freedom of the individual. It invariably seeks to limit that freedom, if not by overt denial, then by seeking constantly to widen its own functions.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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Man by working and fabricating and building a world inhabited only by himself would still be a fabricator, though not homo faber: he would have lost his specifically human quality and, rather, be a god - not, to be sure, the Creator, but a divine demiurge as Plato described him in one of his myths.
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
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One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.
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One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon.
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.
t is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.
There is never enough where nought is left.
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