This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
Abstinence | Beauty | Body | Change | Friend | Sacrifice | Woman | Beauty |
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
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Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Salvador de Madariaga, fully Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo
He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.
Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
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Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech
The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
In America, the labor movement stands behind the government, and behind President Wilson. We stand behind him not because he is president, but because he is right and because he is a spokesman for freedom and democracy for all the nations of the world.
Civilization | Cultivation | Man | Opportunity | Service | Soul | Wealth | Woman | Work |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Slander is the revenge of the coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
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Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
The iron rail proved a magicians' road. It virtually reduced England to a sixth of its size. It brought the country nearer to the town and the town to the country.... It energized punctuality, discipline, and attention; and proved a moral teacher by the influence of example.
Character | Influence | People | Society | Will | Woman | Society |
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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