This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I have had direct experience of this myself. Often, what the press wrote, or did not write, about a remark I made somewhere proved to be of a far greater consequence than the remark itself. Democratic choice in such cases ceases to be a choice between alternatives people are familiar with, and have personally tried, and becomes a choice between alternatives offered by those who run the media.
Good | Important | Reason | Sensibility | Taste |
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
Association | Civilization | Conduct | Culture | Events | Fate | Global | History | Human race | Humanity | Race | Reason | Rights | Unique | War | World | Fate | Association |
Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
Experience | Reason | Absurdity |
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Awareness of dying slander their lives.
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It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.
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It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.
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The reason that philosophers and glory makes heroes, the only virtue is wise.
Reason |
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There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
Heart | Justice | Self-interest |
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Those who are not able to please women get corrected.
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Anything that flatters our vanity more is only based on the culture that we despise.
Reason |
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The reason she blushed tendencies cannot account for.
Reason |
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Women and young people develop their separate estimates of their tastes.
Appearance | Blame | Justice | Law | Order | Rights | Rule | Universe |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
The spirits and immortals of old had no special tricks; they were simply happy as could be, and they never worried." This should be the motto of all cultivators.
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
They use baths, and moreover they have warm ones according to the Roman custom, and they make use also of olive oil. They have found out, too, a great many secret cures for the preservation of cleanliness and health. And in other ways they labor to cure the epilepsy, with which they are often troubled.
Fear | Little | Love | Power | Property | Reason | Riches | Self-love | Wife | Riches |