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
I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
No nation has a monopoly on good things. Each one has something that the others could well afford to adopt.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes, sit out in the open naked, and they wouldent put their clothes on? The authorities finally turned a Sprayer that you use on trees, on 'em. That may lead into quite a thing. Woman comes into the tax office nude, saying I won't pay. Well they can't search her and get anything. It sounds great. How far is it to British Columbia?
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of the Church seem to me not to rest so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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Wernher von Braun, fully Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me—and continues to teach me—strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
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Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change.
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Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.
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The absolute and static were even taken over by such dynamically oriented psychological schools as the Freudian in the form of the permanent unconscious ideas. In Jung, the unconscious psychic life was enlarged to the static "racial unconscious" and to the static "collective unconscious". Along with the static viewpoint, these psychologies took over the idea of guilt, even after their separation from philosophy. In so doing, they fell into a cul de sac from which there was no way out.
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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
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Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Walking exercises the whole person. It exercises the body--it gives the arms and legs a workout. It stimulates the flow of blood; expands the lungs. It is gentle and relaxing. It exercises the mind--it shakes up the brain cells. It fills them with oxygen; drives out the cobwebs. A famous scientist says he does his best thinking on the two miles of sidewalk between his home and office. Walking exercises the emotions. It gives you a chance to observe and enjoy the world. Open your eyes to beauty. See the homes, the trees, the gardens. See the shining faces of little children. Listen for the church chimes, singing birds and the laughter of happy people.
Life springs from thousands of sources vibrant, hands up everyone who cling to, refuses to be expressed in phrases tedious, only accepts actions transparent, truthful words of love and pleasure
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Religion, patriotism, race and sex are the favorite red herrings of foul political method – they are the most successful because they explode so easily and flood the mind with those unconscious prejudices which make critical thinking difficult. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
The Maid's Lament - I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone, I feel I am alone. I check'd him while he spoke; yet, could he speak, alas! I would not check. For reasons not to love him once I sought, and wearied all my thought to vex myself and him: I now would give my love could he but live who lately lived for me, and, when he found 'twas vain, in holy ground he hid his face amid the shades of death! I waste for him my breath who wasted his for me! but mine returns, and this torn bosom burns with stifling heat, heaving it up in sleep, and waking me to weep tears that had melted his soft heart: for years wept he as bitter tears! Merciful God! such was his latest prayer, these may she never share. Quieter is his breath, his breast more cold, than daisies in the mold, where children spell, athwart the churchyard gate, his name and life's brief date. Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe'er you be, and oh! pray too for me!
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
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Who can look down upon the grave even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him!
When he hung over the death-bed of his infant son Ibrahim, resignation to the Will of God was exhibited in his conduct under this keenest of afflictions; and the hope of soon rejoining his child in paradise was his consolation. When he followed him to the grave, he invoked his spirit, in the awful examination of the tomb, to hold fast to the foundations of the faith, the Unity of God, and his own mission as a Prophet.
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