This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Twenty-seven years ago, as Emperor of Ethiopia, I mounted the rostrum in Geneva, Switzerland, to address the League of Nations and to appeal for relief from the destruction which had been unleashed against my defenseless nation, by the Fascist invader.
It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
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Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.
ne with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.
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No day but has its evening.
People get the government they deserve.
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To go safely through the world you must have the eye of a falcon, the ear of an ass, the face of an ape, the mouth of a pig, the shoulders of a camel, and the legs of a deer.
Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.
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J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.
Children | Global | Government | Labor | People | Rights | War | Government |
Who troubles others has no rest himself.
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