This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
After a child or two, that sort runs to fat, and you find you have married more of her than you bargained for.
Whitney Young, fully Whitney Moore Young, Jr.
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
Easy contact was made on that fateful day with what obviously turned out to be a heretofore unknown type of UFO. I had hesitated for weeks to turn my cloudbuster pipes toward a "star," as if I had known that some of the blinking lights hanging in the sky were not planets or fixed stars but SPACE machines. With the fading out of the two "stars," the cloudbuster had suddenly changed into a SPACEGUN. From then onward, too, our approach to the problem of space became positive, affirmative, confident in using our carefully screened data.
Courage |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience and enthusiasm.
Courage | Failure | Individual | Present | Success | Failure | Loss |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore yourself! There is power in you--the power to change yourself and to change the world; the power to create plans, projects, movements for the common good; the power to inspire and serve.
In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality.
Family and school, from a political point of view, there are nothing but bourgeois social order workshops for the manufacture of discrete and obedient subjects. The father, according to the traditional image, is the representative of the bourgeois authorities and state power in the family. The authority of the state demands of adults the same attitude imposing obedient and submissive father... The limitation of freedom of psychic activity and criticism by sexual repression is one of the most important pillars of bourgeois sexual order. Bullying and sexual atrophy and children waking up in the fear of authority by their desires, thoughts and sexual acts, constitute the essence of the psychic apparatus by means of which the family enslaves youth capital
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Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
And then there is the thrill of creatively sowing ideas and inspiration into the minds of others. Often our contributions will actually change lives by sharing appreciation, courage, love, and joy. Carry the ideal of being a creative sower, that you are on the side of growth, plenty, peace, and progress. Make it a point to scatter creative seeds every day of your life!
Adventure | Art | Courage | Curiosity | Daring | Day | Dreams | Faith | Flexibility | Grave | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Men | Reading | Safe | Theories | Flexibility | Art | Stamina |
Because I'm a man who works, who knows what a human being is like inside, who knows that every human being has his worth, and who wants the world to be governed by work and not by opinions about work.
Courage | Individual | Truth |
Walt Kelley, fully Walter Crawford "Walt" Kelly, Jr.
Twenty Percent of Zero is Better than Nothing.
Courage | Desire | Gentleness | Need | Will |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Open the envelope quickly, O this is not our son's writing, yet his name is sign'd, O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother's soul! All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only, sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital, at present low, but will soon be better.
The book of Isaiah both appeals to the theological-ideological assumptions and places them in question because the facts on the ground tell otherwise. Thus the book of Isaiah and the larger Jerusalem tradition expose this difficult interface between theological claim and lived reality, a difficult interface that is front and center in the book of Job, a difficult interface that every pastor must face in the form of the theodicy question.
Courage | Failure | Imagination | Poetry | Spirit | Will | Failure | Old |
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.
Consciousness | Courage | Imagination | Need | Power | Think |
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend this into all our thinking. Between us and the realities of social life we build up a mass of generalizations, abstract ideas, ancient glories, and personal wishes. They simplify and soften experience. It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves. We worry about their fate and forget their original content.
Courage | Danger | Excitement | Danger |
Walter Pater, fully Walter Horatio Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Action | Birth | Body | Death | Design | Grave | Life | Life | Light | Present | Principles | Regard | Science | Sound | Parting |