This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Holy, humble, penitent, believing, earnest, persevering prayer is never lost; it always prevails to the accomplishment of the thing sought, or that with which the suppliant will be better satisfied in the end, according to the superior wisdom of his heavenly father, in which he trusts.
Tennessee Williams, fully Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Saul Alinsky, fully Saul David Alinsky
There is no such thing as a single problem… all problems are interrelated.
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The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological pint of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge.
Scott Adams, fully Scott Raymond Adams
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
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What then does propter hoc add to post hoc? At the factual level, nothing at all, so long as the conjunction is constant in either case... In nature one thing just happens after another. Cause and effect have their place only in our imaginative arrangements and extensions of these primary facts.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Did you guess any thing lived only its moment? The world does not so exist, no parts palpable or impalpable so exist, no consummation exists without being from some long previous consummation, and that from some other, without the farthest conceivable one coming a bit nearer the beginning than any.
That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.
The history of Christendom would have been far happier if we all had remembered one rule of intelligence - not to believe a thing more strongly at the end of a bitter argument than at the beginning, not to believe it with the energy of the opposition rather than one's own.
Argument | Beginning | Energy | History | Intelligence | Opposition | Rule | Wisdom |
William Bolitho, pen name for Charles William Ryall
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The most important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence and it marks the difference between a man of sense and a fool.