This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Maxim Gorky, pen name of Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you'll learn at how precious it is.
The seduction of war is insidious because so much of what we are told about it is true; It does create a sense of comradeship, which obliterates our alienation and makes us, for perhaps the only time of our life, feel we belong. War allows us to rise above our small stations in life. We find nobility in a cause and feelings of selflessness and even bliss. And at a time of soaring deficits and financial scandals and the very deterioration of our domestic fabric, war is a fine diversion. War, for those who enter into combat, has a dark beauty, filled with the monstrous and the grotesque. The Bible calls it the "lust of the eye" and warns believers against it. War gives us a distorted sense of self; it gives us meaning.
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Colin Powell, fully Colin Luther Powell
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.
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The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes as soon as he begins to think for himself... He rebels because he categorically refuses to submit to conditions that he considers intolerable and also because he is confusedly convinced that his position is justified, or rather, because in his own mind he thinks that he ‘has the right to...’ Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.