This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
With the help of our guardian angel we can try to see it reflected in God as in a mirror, for we will never come to know ourselves if we do not try to know God.
All of the moral precepts belong to the law of nature.
The Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil, which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the intellect, are in the mind.
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Salman Rushdie, fully Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
What is needed is a move beyond tradition -- nothing less than a reform movement to bring the core concepts of Islam into the modern age.
Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking; His servants should act as Our Lord did.
Church | Fear | Misfortune | Past | Present | Reason | Misfortune | Blessed |
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
When I win, I crow softly, if at all; and when I lose, I weep gently, if at all. I do not consider President Nixon's change of mind a surrender to me. I consider it a victory for the constitutional government in America.
Character | Church | Government | Men | Mind | Relationship | Government |
The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
I don't think either one of them would have recognized the Bill of Rights if they met it on the street in broad daylight under a cloudless sky.
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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 |
Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
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Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
Aid | Church | Force | Government | Society | Society | Government |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.
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