This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Chance | Doubt | Freedom | Liberty | Nations | War | World |
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
Freedom |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be...Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Story |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
People spend money when and where they feel good.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
And over all the sky—the sky! Far, far out of reach, studded, breaking out, the eternal stars.
Rights |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
You can't just let nature run wild.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Our frigate takes fire, the other asks if we demand quarter? If our colors are struck and the fighting done? Now I laugh content for I hear the voice of my little captain, we have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Of the terrible doubt of appearances, of the uncertainty after all, that we may-be deluded, that may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all, that may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only. May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters, the skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known.
Giving | Indispensable | Rights |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I heard the hissing rustle of the liquid and sands as directed to me whispering to congratulate me, for the one I love most lay sleeping by me under the same cover in the cool night, in the stillness in the autumn moonbeams his face was inclined toward me, and his arm lay lightly around my breast—and that night I was happy.
God | Men | Will | God | Understand |
Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.
Advice | God | Heart | Life | Life | Love | Sin | Vision | Will | God | Obstacle |