This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.
Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics and the Catholics hate the Protestants, and the Hindus hate the Moslems, and everybody hates the Jews.
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Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred and sixty-four
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
In all probability I'll lose my virility and you your fertility and desirability, And this liability of total sterility will lead to hostility and a sense of futility, So let's act with agility while we still have facility, for we'll soon reach senility and lose the ability.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
Don’t try to pray for happiness. Cultivate the mind of joy as the basis of happiness, and there you are. Don’t try to evade misfortune. Avoid wanting to harm others and you’ll keep misfortune at bay.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
Oh, the white folks hate the black folks, and the black folks hate the white folks; to hate all but the right folks is an old established rule.
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Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
He that feeds upon charity has a cold dinner and no supper.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
No policy is sustainable without a public that broadly understands why it's necessary and sees the world the way you do...
Absence | Better | Children | Global | Hate | Humanity | Kill | Knowledge | Men | Murder | News | Order | Peace | Religion | Self-realization | Terrorism | Thought | War | Murder | Thought |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Again and again mothers who lost their sons in France have come to me, and, taking my hand, have not only shed tears upon it, but they have added, `God bless you, Mr. President! Why should they pray God to bless me? I advised the Congress to create the situation that led to the death of their sons. I ordered their sons overseas. I consented to their sons' being put in the most difficult part of the battle line, where death was certain...Why should they weep upon my hand and call down the blessings of God upon me? Because they believe that their boys died for something that vastly transcends any of the immediate and palpable objects of the war. They believe, and rightly believe, that their sons saved the liberty of the world.
Existence | Instinct | Men | Race | Self-preservation |
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty
And these few precepts in thy memory look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar; the friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, bear't that th' opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man, and they in France of the best rank and station are most select and generous, chief in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry, this above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee! Sonnet 90
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BENVOLIO: Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain: — Stand not amaz'd: — the Prince will doom thee death, if thou are taken: — hence! — be gone! — away! ROMEO: O, I am fortune's fool! BENVOLIO: Why dost thou stay? Romeo and Juliet, Act iii, Scene 1