This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
You have to want to succeed… You have to develop know-how. Merely putting time and energy into a project isn’t enough… Finally, you have to do it.
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation.
It is also important to fall in love with what you do and then you can work longer in the field. Companies that prosper are ones that take care of their people (employees) and give them encouragement each day.
Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.
Control | Esteem | Fidelity | Friend | Influence | Justice | Liberty | Man | Men | Nothing | Office | Power | Restraint | Time | Trust | Will | Wise |
Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers. Cannibalism is moral in a cannibal country.
The World War in which we are engaged in is on such a tremendous scale that we must readjust practically the whole nation's social and economic structure from a peace to a war basis. It devolves upon liberty-loving citizens, and particularly the workers of this country, to see to it that the spirit and the methods of democracy are maintained within our own country while we are engaged in a war to establish them in international relations. The fighting and the concrete issues of the war are so removed from our country that not all of our citizens have a full understanding of the principles of autocratic force which the Central Powers desire to substitute for the real principles of freedom.
Collusion | Conduct | Determination | Future | Half-truth | Influence | Labor | Little | Opportunity | People | Policy | Purpose | Purpose | Qualities |
Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
Character | Civilization | Conduct | Example | Future | Good | Honesty | Influence | Life | Life | Men | Present | Progress | Purpose | Purpose | Self | Time |
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.
Character | Influence | People | Society | Will | Woman | Society |
The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
I no longer count as one of my merits that I always tell the truth as much as possible; it has become my metier.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Aggression | Influence | Love | People | Power | Property | System |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying them all on the same plane, without any discrimination of value, as though good and evilwere external to them, as though the effort toward the good could be absent at any moment from the thought of any man.