This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Shoghí Effendi, fully Shoghí Effendí Rabbání
He is very sorry that such undesirable things are every now and then cropping up in … and discouraging you in your work, keeping you from devoting all your spare time in teaching the Cause, and spreading its principles. He does not wish you, however, to lose heart from such things. As the Cause grows its difficulties will increase and its problems will become more numerous. The friends, especially the older ones, should therefore try and stand unmoved by them. In fact the more their difficulties will increase the more they have to take courage and try to solve them. The Master has often said that sorrows are like furrows, the deeper they go the more productive the land becomes. If this problem. .. should be settled other problems will arise. Are the friends to become discouraged or are they to follow the footsteps of the Master and consider them more as chances to show their tenacity of belief and spirit of sacrifice?
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Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
Here's my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.
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Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.
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Rose Macauley, fully Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay
If I had a rose for every time I think of you, I would walk in my garden forever.
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He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be, And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!
Russell Lynes, fully Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr.
The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
Russell H. Conwell, fully Russell Herman Conwell
Greatness consists not in holding some office; greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means, in the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life that is true greatness.
Russell Baker. fully Russell Wayne Baker
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious — just dead wrong.
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Ruth Benedict, born Ruth Fulton
Little by little, in the long run, aspirations can realize themselves. Work for that. We must count it our wealth.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face. This alone I know, that without you all to me is misery, woe outside myself and woe within, and all wealth but penury, if it is not my God.
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin
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You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment is never to be found, in whatever place and condition one may be. This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it. Did Our Lord lead an easy life?
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Day by day, however, the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life. The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants is what no person of a truly philosophic mind can for a moment question.
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
Murder and theft have been committed since the earliest history of mankind, but that fact has not made murder meritorious or larceny legal.
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