This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
Ideas | Imperialism | War |
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.
Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
After these conversations with Tagore some of the ideas that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. That was a great help for me.
Ideas |
We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish me, me, me culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground.
Computer | Ideas | Organization | Philosophy | Qualities |
The observations in the dark were somehow weird. After the eyes adapted to the darkness, the room did not appear black but grey blue. There were fog like formations and bluish dots and lines of light, violet light phenomena seemed to emanate from the walls as well as from the various objects in the room.
Correctness | Ideas | Knowing | Little | Man | Strength | Thought | Afraid | Thought |
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.
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life — drama, pathos and humor.
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
Our contribution to television is entertainment, created without deviation from our conception of what entertainment should be.
Wilfred Trotter, fully Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power—to name only a few—as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.
Ideas | Mercy | Mind | Usefulness | Will |
With this the [genuine] leader will cause many to turn against him. He will have robbed these many of an object to hold on to, like a bean stalk would feel robbed of comfort if you took away the supporting stick of wood.
Capacity | Criticism | Education | Enough | Future | Humanity | Ideas | Life | Life | Play | Sense | Sound | Thinking | Work | Think |
You are afraid of life, Little Man, deadly afraid. You will murder it in the belief of doing it for the sake of "socialism," or "the state," or "national honor," or "the glory of God."
Contention | Existence | Ideas | Knowledge | Life | Life | People | Politics | Responsibility | Suppression | Work |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals.
Change | Day | Ideas | Inspiration | Will |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
Ideas | Imagination | Ingenuity | Tomorrow | Will | World | Ingenuity |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
Our part in things is to build along the lines we are known for, with happy family stories and comedies. I've never thought of this as art. It's part of show-business.
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned.... That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Ideas |
Walter Anderson, fully Walter Truett Anderson
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome true hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort