This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles and waste the time which looks for other revels. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act ii, Scene 3
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Charles F. Kettering, fully Charles Franklin Kettering
The Wright Brothers flew right through the smokescreen of impossibility.
Hope | Imagination |
Daniel Gilbert, fully Daniel Todd Gilbert, aka Professor Happiness
Not to think about the future requires that we convince our frontal lobe to do what it was designed to do, and like a heart that is told not to beat, it naturally resists that suggestion.
The present condition wherewith a contented mind is limited in this text, admits a double reference. One to the time past; wherein though his condition hath been better, yet he repineth not at the alteration thereof.
Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.
We know there oft is found an avarice in grief; and the wan eye of sorrow loves to gaze upon its secret hoard of treasured woes, and pine in solitude.
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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.
Example | Hope | Inspiration | Man |
Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men — yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
Folk say, a wizard to a northern king at Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show, that through one window men beheld the spring, and through another saw the summer glow, and through a third the fruited vines a-row, while still, unheard, but in its wonted way, piped the drear wind of that December day. So with this Earthly Paradise it is, if ye will read aright, and pardon me, who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss midmost the beating of the steely sea, where tossed about all hearts of men must be; whose ravening monsters mighty men shall slay, not the poor singer of an empty day.