This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Security is never absolute... The government of a free people must take certain chances for the sake of maintaining freedom which the government of a police state avoids because it holds freedom to be of no value.
Absolute | Freedom | Government | People | Security | Wisdom | Government |
Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch
We must remember that the people do not belong to the government but that governments belong to the peoples.
Government | People | Wisdom | Government |
Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson
Anyone who is thoroughly familiar with the language and literature of a people cannot be wholly its enemy.
Enemy | Language | Literature | People | Wisdom |
Fear is an insidious virus. Given a breeding place in our minds, it will permeate the whole body of our work; it will eat away our spirit and block the forward path of our endeavors. Fear is the greatest enemy of progress... Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
Body | Courage | Enemy | Fear | Progress | Spirit | Will | Wisdom | Work |
Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and what cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere.
Death | Men | Nations | Past | People | Spirit | Will | Wisdom |
Thrift is not, as many suppose, a self repression. It is self expression, the demonstration of a will and ability to raise one's self to a higher plane of living. No depression was ever caused by people having too much money in reserve. No human being ever became a social drifter through the practice of sensible thrift.
Ability | Depression | Money | People | Practice | Reserve | Self | Thrift | Will | Wisdom |
To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.
Clive Barnes, fully Clive Alexander Barnes
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Culture | People | Television | Wisdom |
Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Dedication | Luck | Majority | People | Study | Wisdom | Work |
Anthony of Sourozh, fully Archbishop Metropolitan Anthony Bloom of Sourozh NULL
People are much greater and stronger than we imagine, and when unexpected tragedy comes we see them often grow to a stature that is far beyond anything we imagined. We must remember that people are capable of greatness, of courage, but not in isolation. They need the conditions of solidly linked human unit in which everyone is prepared to bear the burden of others.
Courage | Greatness | Isolation | Need | People | Tragedy | Wisdom |