This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The Divine Guru has opened his eyes. Doubt has been dispelled; my service has been successful.
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Gain is deposited in my right hand, victory in my left. Let me become a conqueror of cattle, horses, wealth, and gold.
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V. S. Pritchett, fully Sir Victor Sawdon Pritchett
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
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Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
Much needs to occur, however, between the collection of data and observations, the extraction of parallel material from the existing record, and the final insertion of new material into the general body of the common record. For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute. But creative thought and essentially repetitive thought are very different things. For the latter there are, and may be, powerful mechanical aids.
It has not dawned upon most of us that we do not need some new thing so much as some old things that would be new if anybody tried them.
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
After the battle they celebrate the military triumphs after the manner of the Romans, and even in a more magnificent way. Prayers by the way of thank-offerings are made to God, and then the general presents himself in the temple, and the deeds, good and bad, are related by the poet or historian, who according to custom was with the expedition.
The agrarian would divide all the property in the community equally among its members. - But if so divided today, industry on the one hand, and idleness on the other, would make it unequal on the morrow. - There is no agrarianism in the providence of God.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
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Think not rightly to examine yourself by looking only to your own inner motives and feelings, which are the hardest of all things to analyze if looked at in the abstract, and apart from outward actions. But ask, "Do I believe all that God teaches, and endeavor to do all that God commands?" For in this is the evidence of true love to him.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
Then the music strikes up, and freely they pardon the offences and faults of the enemy, and after the victories they are kind to them, if it has been decreed that they should destroy the walls of the enemy's city and take their lives.
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