This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.
William Cohen, fully William Sebastian Cohen
We felt it was in our best interests to move out. We'll play this out in court.
My sister and my sister's child, myself and children three, will fill the chaise: so you must ride on horseback after me.
Man in society is like a flow'r, blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone his faculties expanded in full bloom shine out, there only reach their proper use.
Himself a wanderer from the narrow way, his silly sheep, what wonder if they stray?
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Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, and sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Before you complain, think of Peru.
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
The medical profession thrives on two incurable diseases in these modern days - a He-disease and a She-disease. She disease - nervous depression; He-disease - suppressed gout. Remedies, one guinea if you go to the doctor; two guineas if the doctor goes to you.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Got a nice letter the other day from Barney Baruch. I had about a year and a half ago, just before the crash (October, 1929), sorter half way decided to get a little dab of some kind of stock. Everybody all around me was just rolling so in profits, that it made the pay I get for my joke telling seem mighty little. I had never, or haven’t yet, got a dollar that I didn’t tell a joke for, either on stage or paper, so I knowing Barney mighty well, and having a mighty high regard for him personally, so in my little talk with him I asked him to invest in his own way a little dab that I thought I could spare. Well I had to naturally tell him something of my affairs, so I told him what I owed, mostly on unimproved Real Estate. Well he liked to have thrown me out of his Wall Street Office. You owe that much, and you want to take some of your money and buy stocks? You go home and pay your debts. Lord knows how long it will take you to do 'em. But pay what you can of 'em. You won't like this advice, no man does. He don't want to pay his debts as long as he thinks he can make an easy dollar in something else. I wouldent invest a dollar for you anyhow, things are too high, they don't look good. Now go start paying on your debts. That's the nearest I ever came to owning stock. (I mean outside of a few horses, and cattle.) Less than a month from the day I was in his office the Bust came. So every few months he writes me and asks me how I am making out on the debts, and how much I got 'em whittled down.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence levels in both states.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.
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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
I know different ways of looking at things. I have my stockholders, and I feel a very keen responsibility to the shareholders, but I feel that the main responsibility I have to them is to have the stock appreciate. And you only have it appreciate by reinvesting as much as you can back in the business. And that's what we've done... and that has been my philosophy on running the business.
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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, the carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, the mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, the boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck, the shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands, the wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown, the delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, the day what belongs to the day — at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
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In the hierarchy each is dependent upon a superior and is in turn superior to some class of his dependents. What holds the machine together is a system of privileges. The may vary according to the opportunities and tastes of those who seek them, from nepotism and patronage in all their aspects to clannishness, hero-worship or a fixed idea.
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