This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Anne Monroe, fully Anne Shannon Monroe
Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself.
Character | Loneliness | Opportunity |
Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success.
Achievement | Character | Daring | Force | Opportunity | Persistence | Success | Tact | Vigilance |
A teacher should give his pupil opportunity for independent practice without suggestions from himself, and thus set upon him the stamp of indelible memory in its purest form.
Character | Memory | Opportunity | Practice | Teacher |
All life is initiation. Each experience, each act, deed, especially thoughts, are a portion of initiation. Initiation then is the process whereby the entity - the soul force, is given the opportunity to develop spiritually. This means, that when the soul chooses to improve itself - to move towards a greater light, the soul body so changes its vibration as to remove from its spiritual fabric those attachments detrimental to its path upward.
Body | Character | Experience | Force | Life | Life | Light | Means | Opportunity | Soul |
The opportunity having passed, one may seek (in vain) to seize another.
Opportunity | Wisdom |
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
Argument | Good | Opportunity | Wisdom |
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
Character | Life | Life | Opportunity | Perseverance | Success | Talent |
Brown v. Board of Education NULL
Today education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
Awakening | Citizenship | Education | Good | Important | Life | Life | Opportunity | Public | Right | Service | Society | Training | Wisdom | Child |
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Government | Men | Office | Opportunity | Wisdom | Work | Government | Happiness |
Edgar Cayce, known as the "Sleeping Prophet"
When you are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
Opportunity | Wisdom |
Roy D. Chapin, Jr., fully Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr.
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Luck | Opportunity | Time | Wisdom | Luck |
When difficulties confront you, baptize them opportunity and set the man inside you to finding the way to turn them from difficulties into opportunities.
Man | Opportunity | Wisdom |
It is in education more than anywhere else that we have sincerely striven to carry into execution "the Great American Dream": the vision of a longer and fuller life for the ordinary man, a life of widened freedom, of equal opportunity for each to make of himself all that he is capable of becoming.
Education | Freedom | Life | Life | Man | Opportunity | Vision | Wisdom |
G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
Beginning | Nothing | Opportunity | Service | Wisdom |