This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Nnamdi Azikiwe, fully Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe, aka "The Zik of Africa"
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
Creativity | Originality | Scholar | Soul |
What is Christian perfection? The loving God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength. This implies that no wrong temper, none contrary to love, remains in the soul; and that all the thoughts, words, and actions are governed by pure love.
God | Heart | Love | Mind | Perfection | Soul | Strength | Temper | Words | Wrong | God |
Judging others takes a great deal of energy and, without exception, pulls you away from where you want to be.
Energy |
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
Character | Energy | Right | Soul | Spirit | Temptation | Trials | Trial | Temptation |
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
A bold policy to reduce the addiction to oil would be the most powerful weapon to win the epic struggle against terrorism. In the short term, this means saving energy through more efficient technologies, necessary anyway to slow the greenhouse effect and global warming.
Addiction | Energy | Global | Means | Policy | Struggle | Terrorism |