This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. Eugene Smith, fully William Eugene Smith
Negatives are the notebooks, the jottings, the false starts, the whims, the poor drafts, and the good draft but never the completed version of the work... The completed version a print should be sufficient and fair return for a magazine's investment, for it is the means of fulfilling the magazine's purpose ,,,, The print and a proper one is the only completed photograph, whether it is specifically shaded for reproduction, or for a museum wall. Negatives are private, as is my bedroom.
People |
W. Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as revealed religion. They are theories more or less rational which uncivilized men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilized men believe that they believe.
Mankind | Philosophy | Religion | Spirit | Success | System |
Who can think of the sun costuming clouds when all people are shaken or of night endazzled, proud, when people awaken and cry and cry for help?
Vita Sackville-West, fully The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
Determination | Experience | Life | Life | Nothing | Pleasure |
Vita Sackville-West, fully The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
Of course I have no right whatsoever to write down the truth about my life involving as it naturally does the lives of so many other people, but I do so urged by a necessity of truth-telling, because there is no living soul who knows the complete truth; here, may be one who knows a section; and there, one who knows another section: but to the whole picture not one is initiated.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
What a waste that we lost Mussolini. He is a first-rate man who would have led our party to power in Italy.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
It is at moments of need that one learns who one’s friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Philosophical idealism is only nonsense from the standpoint of crude, simple, metaphysical materialism. From the standpoint of dialectical materialism, on the other hand, philosophical idealism is a one-sided, exaggerated, development (inflation, distension) of one of the features, aspects, facets of knowledge, into an absolute, divorced from matter, from nature, apotheosized.
Cause | Disagreement | Present | Regard |
Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
The fact is that pictures which are unlike reality ought not be approved, and even if they are technically fine, this is no reason why they should offhand be judged to be correct, if their subject is lacking in the principles of reality carried out with no violations.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?
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Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. -Vince Lombardi.
We have reached the point, however, where we no longer have the luxury to indulge in self-centered comfort and personal acquisition or to escape into religious pursuits at the cost of collective interests. For us there can be no escape, no withdrawal, no private arena in which we can turn our backs on the sorrows of humanity, saying, “I am not responsible. Others have created a mess; let them mend it.” The writing on the world’s wall is plain: “Learn to live together or in separateness you die!” The choice is ours.
Awareness | Love | Purity | Soul | Will | Wisdom | Awareness |
Compassion is a spontaneous movement of wholeness. It is not a studied decision to help the poor, to be kind to the unfortunate. Compassion has a tremendous momentum that naturally, choicelessly moves us to worthy action. It has the force of intelligence, creativity, and the strength of love. Compassion cannot be cultivated; it derives neither from intellectual conviction nor from emotional reaction. It is simply there when the wholeness of life becomes a fact that is truly lived.
Absolute | Compassion | Life | Life | Nothing | Oneness | Principles | Reality | Will |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
Ideas |
Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
Success |
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
Love is something eternal-the aspects may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it is a good lamp, but now it is shedding light, too, and that is its real function.