This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The serene decision of the tombs is beautiful, their uncompromising architecture and the little squares with the coolness of a patio and the isolation and eternal individuation; each contemplated his own death, unique and personal like a memory. The quietude pleases us, we confuse such peace in life with dying and while we believe we desire not to be , we are praying for a peaceful life.
Death | Decision | Desire | Eternal | Isolation | Life | Life | Little | Memory | Peace | Unique |
To live is to feel ourselves fatally obliged to exercise our liberty, to decide what we are going to be in this world. Not for a single moment is our activity of decision allowed to rest. Even when in desperation we abandon ourselves to whatever may happen, we have decided not to decide.
Decision | Desperation | Liberty | Rest | World |
M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck
The only real security in life lies in relishing life's insecurity.
Insecurity | Life | Life | Security |
M. Scott Peck, fully Morgan Scott Peck
The best decision makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain the ability to be decisive.
Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding one, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word “decide” contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.
Decision | Failure | Genius | Language | Magic | Music | Nothing | Perseverance | Reading | Study | Success | Thinking | Will | Failure | Learn |
Natural law is a practical first principle in the sphere of morality; it forbids evil and commands good. Positive law is a decision that takes circumstances into account and conforms with natural law on credible grounds. The basis of natural law is God, who has created this light, but the basis of positive law is civil authority.
Authority | Circumstances | Decision | Evil | God | Good | Law | Light | Morality |
Noam Chomsky, fully Avram Noam Chomsky
It is worth remembering - particularly since it has been so uniformly suppressed - that the U.S. is the only country that was condemned for international terrorism by the World Court and that rejected a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe international law.
Noam Chomsky, fully Avram Noam Chomsky
Government secrecy is not for security reasons, overwhelmingly it's just to prevent the population from knowing what's going on. I mean, a lot of secret internal documents get declassified after thirty years or so, and if you look over the entire long record of them, there's virtually nothing in there that ever had any security-related concern.
Government | Knowing | Nothing | Secrecy | Security |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
True happiness, lasting happiness, lies only in god, “Having whom no other gain is greater.” In Him is the only safety, the only shelter, the only escape from all our fears. You have no other security in the world, no other freedom. The only true freedom lies in God.
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made nothing happens.