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 love animals and I love politicians. I like to watch both of ’em play either back home in their native state or after they have been captured and sent to a zoo or to Washington.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I have looked politics and the movies both over and, while they have much in common I believe politics is the most common, so I will stay with the movies.
Confidence | Work | World |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise what they would do if they got in. But the Republicans have to promise what they would do and then explain why they haven't already done it.
Business | Change | Good | Life | Life | Man | People | Work | Business | Learn |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Land taxes is the thing. (This land is taxed at $60 an acre, same as it was taxed when wheat was $2.50 a Bushel. Now wheat is two bits and it's still taxed at $60.) They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. It's land ain't it? Well tax it then.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?
Aid | Government | Humanity | Man | Politics | Reason | Truth | Will | Government |
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?
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The Republican platform promises to do better. I don’t think they have done so bad. Everybody’s broke but them.
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night an ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
Day | Hope | Present | Reason | Regret | Thought | Understanding | Will | Thought |
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.
I say this in dead earnest -- if, because of some fine speeches about humanity, you return this administration to office, you will be serving under an American totalitarian government before the long third term is finished.
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Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
Freedom | Justification | Reading | Religion | Soul | World |
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: “My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.” That is the tone of innocence.
It is not beyond actual possibilities that men from outer space have landed (or will in the future land) on earth and have begun to breed here for whatever reason they may have had.
Feelings | Force | Harm | Hope | Indispensable | Life | Life | Man | People | Play | Power | Struggle | Time | Will | Work |
Nature and culture, instinct and morality, sexuality and achievement become incompatible as a result of the split in the human structure. The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural (orgastic) sexual gratification.
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
Reinhold Niebuhr's new orthodoxy is the old-time religion put through the intellectual wringer. It is a re-examination of orthodoxy for an age dominated by such trends as rationalism, liberalism, Marxism, fascism, idealism and the idea of progress.
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
Now, the Communists recognized at once (or, more probably, after they had stirred things up a bit) that Senator McCarthy is a political godsend.
Change | Effort | Grace | Individual | Mind | Opinion | Thought | Thought |