This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Love and thoughts are not in space and time." - Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg
"A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. It will be a good thing for the Rougon family to be founded on a massacre, like many illustrious families." - Emile Zola
"The solitude of the subject results from its relationship with the existing over which it is master. This mastery over existing is the power of beginning, of starting out from itself, starting out from itself neither to act nor to think, but to be." - Emmanuel Lévinas , originally Emanuelis Lévinas
"A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
"Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate." - Euripedes NULL
"American is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy – how we buy it – we’ll change who we are." - Faith Popcorn, born Faith Plotkin
"No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken