This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole
What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
Our message is clear. We count. Children count. Everybody counts, so count everybody,
Better | Equality | Example | Family | Organization |
Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. Every time we hate, envy, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell.
Change | Contentment | Daughter | Day | Life | Life | Light | Looks | Mind | Nothing | People | Power | Regret | Safe | Time | Will | Wonder | Wrong | Think |
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seems to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.
Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown
We all have stories we tell ourselves. We tell ourselves we are too fat, too ugly, or too old, or too foolish. We tell ourselves these stories because they allow us to excuse our actions, and they allow us to pass off the responsibility for things we have done-maybe to something within our control, but anything other than the decisions we have made.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
Effort | Men | Mob | Occupation | Organization | Past | Power | Principles | Purpose | Purpose | Success | Work |
I have no possibility to bring the money you sent me to the appropriate receiver. I return it therefore in recognition of your good heart and intention. Your letter shows me also that wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Ideas | Knowledge | Relationship | World |
Elizabeth Dole, fully Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford "Liddy" Dole
If we choose life and liberty, compassion and service, character and faith, we will honor those who came before us, and inspire the children of tomorrow.
Power |
Eleazar ha-Kappar, alternate spelling Eliezer ha-Kappar
The synagogues and Beth midrashs in Babylonia will in the time to come be planted in Eretz Israel.
Disrespect | Grave | Inclination | Will | Blessed |
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others.
Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.
Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain she sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word, then I'll commend her volubility and say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
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She shall be buried by her Antony: no grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous.
She dreams of him that has forgot her love; you dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; and thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!
So excellent a king that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother that he might not beteem the winds of heaven visit her face too roughly.
Power |
See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, and let's be red with mirth.
Say that upon the altar of her beauty you sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: write till your ink be dry and with your tears moist it again, and frame some feeling line, that may discover such integrity.