This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is a city to be built, the plan of which we carry in our heads, in our hearts. Countless generations have already toiled at the building of it. The effort to aid in completing it, with us, takes the place of prayer. In this sense we say, "Laborare est orare."
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We propose to entirely exclude prayer and every form of ritual. Thus shall we avoid even the appearance of interfering with those to whom prayer and ritual, as a mode of expressing religious sentiment, are dear. And on the other hand we shall be just to those who have ceased to regard them as satisfactory and dispensed with them in their own persons.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Then, noticing on one of the shelves a volume of Hugo and another of Lamartine, he broke out into sarcastic criticisms of the romantic school. These poets had neither good sense nor correctness, and, above all, were not French! He plumed himself on his knowledge of the language, and analysed the most beautiful phrases with that snarling severity, that academic taste which persons of playful disposition exhibit when they are discussing serious art.
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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
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The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry... "Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry the same as "determining parallelism," a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.
The chamber-bell is the worst sound one have in his ears.
Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.
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That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.
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There is no use in saying, I will not go such a way, nor drink of such a water.
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