This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I am a peace man. I haven't got any use for wars and there is no more humor in 'em than there is reason for 'em.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
There's no question in my mind the number one problem of mankind is the spread of nuclear knowledge, ... It should be at the top of the list for our government.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
There’s no reason, we should become fearful, if a stock goes down. If a stock goes down 50%, I’d look forward to it. In fact, I would offer you a significant sum of money, if you could give me the opportunity for all of my stocks, to go down 50% over the next month.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes…In the stock market you don't base your decisions on what the market is doing, but on what you think is rational….Bridge is about weighing gain/loss ratios. You're doing calculations all the time.
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of ghoul, feeding in the charnel house of decayed literature.
I’ve come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They stand and grow. Time comes to them, time goes, the trees stand; the only place they go is where they are. Those wholly patient ones… They do no wrong, and they are beautiful. What more Could we have thought to ask?... I stand and wait for light to open the dark night. I stand and wait for prayer to come and find me here.
Cause | Disease | Individual | Motives | Order | People | Power | Success | Will | World |
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
In all technologically "advanced" countries, fashion has replaced tradition, so that involuntary membership in a society can no longer provide a feeling of community.
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.
Human nature | Mercy | Nature | Temptation | Will | Temptation |
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Education is essentially the direction of mental energy. Children have abundant energy looking for an outlet. If adult society provides a satisfactory outlet, hobbies develop into professions and adults find life in their work. If adult society fails in providing an outlet, a double disaster occurs. The child has no energy or enthusiasm for work; and the child's energies are left to find an outlet at random. Society has then abdicated its duty to educate.
W. Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade
We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
My concern has always been to promote joy in mathematics for all-ability pupils, and the driving force has been a feeling that must be shared by anyone who has derived great pleasure from any subject - intense regret that the subject in question is so often presented in a way that produces dislike, worry and a sense of failure.