This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"To become a leader, you must help others achieve their aims." - Welsh Proverbs
"People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning." - W. Edwards Deming, fully William Edwards Deming
"He tries by a peculiar speech to speak the peculiar potency of the general, to compound the imagination's Latin with the lingua franca et jocundissima." - Wallace Stevens
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive, and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done." - Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"I derived my strength from daily mass and communion." - Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can." - Vince Lombardi, fully Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless." - Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
"The mad prophetic Sibyl you shall find, dark in a cave, and on a rock reclin'd. She sings the fates, and, in her frantic fits, The notes and names, inscrib'd, to leafs commits. What she commits to leafs, in order laid, before the cavern's entrance are display'd: many not succeeding, most upbraid the madness of the visionary maid, and with loud curses leave the mystic shade." - Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL
"People on the righteous path always progress, while people who are ignorant always falter and regress." - Rig Veda, or The Rigveda
"Sing the Glories of God each and every day; your afflictions shall be dispelled, and you shall be saved, my humble friend." - Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda
"The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right." - Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty." - Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. " - Charles de Gaulle, fully Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
"The public sense is in advance of private practice." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
"Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental." - Ge Hong, courtesy name Zhichuan, aka Gě Hóng and Ko Hung
"The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world." - Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole
"Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass." - English Proverbs
"For years we have heard of the role the elders could play in saving the Constitution from total destruction. But how can the elders be expected to save it if they have not studied it and are not sure if it is being destroyed or what is destroying it? An informed patriotic gentile was dumbfounded when he heard of Joseph Smith’s reported prophecy regarding the mission our elders could perform in saving the Constitution. He lived in a Mormon community with nice people who were busily engaged in other activities but who had little concern in preserving their freedom. He wondered if maybe a letter should not be sent to President McKay, urging him to release some of the elders from their present Church activities so there would be a few who could help step forward to save the Constitution. Now it is not so much a case of a man giving up all his other duties to fight for freedom, as it is a case of a man getting his life in balance so he can discharge all of his God-given responsibilities. And of all these responsibilities President McKay has said that we have “no greater immediate responsibility” than “to protect the freedom vouchsafed by the Constitution of the United States.” There is no excuse that can compensate for the loss of liberty. Satan is anxious to neutralize the inspired counsel of the Prophet and hence keep the priesthood off balance, ineffective and inert in the fight for freedom. He does this through diverse means, including the use of perverse reasoning. . . The cause of freedom is a most basic part of our religion. Our position on freedom helped get us to this earth and it can make the difference as to whether we get back home or not." - Ezra Taft Benson
"Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken