This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
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Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Coming in, I was denounced as a fraud by all the extreme men of the opposing party, and as an ingrate and a traitor by the same class of men in my own party. Going out, I have the good will, blessings, and approval of the best people of all parties and sections.
Confidence | Contrast | Fame | Giving | Greatness | History | Honesty | Logic | Modesty | Position | Sound | Success | Think |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party... but he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.
Beauty | Eternal | Life | Life | Love | Mystery | Sound | Time | Will | Beauty |
Sammy Davis, Jr., born Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr.
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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Several times the proposition to form a labor party has been considered by the trade union movement, but after careful and thorough consideration it has been invariably decided that we can attain our purposes more quickly and more effectively by continuing our political policy of independent political action partisan to principles rather than to a party.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good, and the fear of evil.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.
If anyone possesses this faculty, then his attention is in reality directed beyond the world, whether he is aware of it or not. The link which attaches the human being to the reality outside the world is, like the reality itself, beyond the reach of human faculties. The respect that it makes us feel as soon as it is recognized cannot be shown to us by evidence or testimony.
Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
His sanguine spirit turns every firefly into a star.
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
My dear Watson, Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.