This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"When wine sinks, words swim." - Italian Proverbs
"Who has never done thinking never begins doing." - Italian Proverbs
"You don't go to heaven in a carriage." - Italian Proverbs
"Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions; transparency is politics' management of mistrust." - Ivan Krastev
"I'd lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins." - J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
"I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story..." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien