This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen. George Armstrong Custer, but what would the rest of us feel today
Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
There is a power to the street that's part of the democratic process when all else has failed,
Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.
All, with one consent, praise new-born gawds, though they are made and moulded of things past; and give to dust, that is a little gilt, more laud than gilt o’erdusted. Henry V, Act iv, Scene 3
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But, alas, to make me a fixèd figure for the time of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at! Othello, Act iv, Scene 2
It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
Absolute | Action | Feelings | Impression | Judgment | Man | Reason | Sacred | Sense | Understanding | Intellect |
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will… and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.
God | Man | Peace | Prosperity | God |