This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.
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Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
A psychedelic experience is a journey to new realms of consciousness. The scope and content of the experience is limitless, but its characteristic features are the transcendence of verbal concepts, of space-time dimensions, and of the ego or identity. Such experiences of enlarged consciousness can occur in a variety of ways: sensory deprivation, yoga exercises, disciplined meditation, religious or aesthetic ecstasies, or spontaneously. Most recently they have become available to anyone through the ingestion of psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT, etc. Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.
With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report being always tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labor from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eyewitnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other. The absence of romance in my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but I shall be content if it is judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it. My history has been composed to be an everlasting possession, not the showpiece of an hour.
Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.
And it is great to do that thing that ends all other deeds, which shackles accidents, and bolts up change. Antony and Cleopatra, Act v, Scene 2
As 'tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home.
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Blest are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, that they are not a pipe for fortune's finger to sound what stop she please. Hamlet, Act iii, Scene 2
Blind fear that seeing reason leads finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear. To fear the worst oft cures the worst. Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene 8
It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.
Absolute | Action | Feelings | Impression | Judgment | Man | Reason | Sacred | Sense | Understanding | Intellect |
Choked with ambition of the meaner sort. Henry VI, Part II, Act ii, Scene 4
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate and infect us all. They poison our minds, before we can resist, or so much as suspect their malignity. Like the barbarous directors of the Eastern seraglios, they deprive us of our vitality, and fit us for their despicable employment from the cradle.
Conscience | Government | Individual | Judgment | Government |
Muslim women do not regard Islam as an obstacle to their progress; indeed, many may see it as a crucial component of that progress.
Appreciation | Cause | Diversity | Justice | Law | Question | Tradition | Understanding | Appreciation |
Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.
Individual | Judgment | Little |