Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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"ItÂ’s his sense of self-preservation. The great Italian sense. The greatest Italian sense." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"We tend to think of development, not in terms of evolution, but in terms of creation." - E. F. Schumacher, fully Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

"It kills the pain. You go back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the past when you were happy is real." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all too common philosophy that the government should protect and support one from the cradle to the grave. The policy of the Founding Fathers has made our people and our nation strong. The opposite leads inevitably to moral decay." - Ezra Taft Benson