This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him
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Once annihilate the quackery of government, and the most homebred understanding might be strong enough to detect the artifices of the state juggler that would mislead him.
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Speak but one word to me over the corn, over the tender, bowed locks of the corn.
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Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Inclination is another word with which will is frequently confounded. Thus, when the apothecary says, in Romeo and Juliet,— “My poverty, but not my will, consents; Take this and drink it off; the work is done.†the word will is plainly used as synonymous with inclination; not in the strict logical sense, as the immediate antecedent of action. It is with the same latitude that the word is used in common conversation, when we think of doing a thing which duty prescribes, against one’s own will; or when we speak of doing a thing willingly or unwillingly.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at II, i)
A word has its use, Or, like a man, it will soon have a grave.
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Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.
When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the people of Tibet will be scattered like ants across the world and the dharma will come to the land of the red man.
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg.
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Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.
Eugene P. Bertin, fully Eugene Peter Bertin
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures.