This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
You cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up up them.
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Clich‚s, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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Power corrupts... when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before. The will to power... far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one.
Substance is not enough, accident is also required.
t is better to ride a donkey that carries you than a horse that throws you.
When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross.
Important | Self-knowledge | Truths |
When the danger is past God is cheated.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap.