This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The tendency to form hierarchies shows itself in petty ways in corporations and bureaucracies, where people place enormous importance on how big their office is and how many windows it has. None of this shows that hierarchy is good, or desirable, or even inevitable; but it does show that getting rid of it is not going to be as easy as previous revolutionaries thought.
Good | Inevitable | Office | People | Thought |
We should each ask ourselves: what place does ethics have in my daily life? In thinking about this question, ask yourself: what do I think of as a good life, in the fullest sense of that term? This is an ultimate question. To ask it is to ask: what kind of a life do I truly admire, and what kind of life do I hope to be able to look back on, when I am older and reflect on how I have lived? Will it be enough to say: "It was fun"?
Enough | Ethics | Fun | Good | Hope | Life | Life | Question | Sense | Thinking | Will | Think |
Eleanor Roosevelt, fully Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
The only place you’ll find success before work is in the dictionary.
If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree.
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Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
Every thought is a prayer. Every thought that we think is like an order that we place with God, who is prepared to give us all that we ask for in the form of our thoughts. The more we dwell on any thought, the more likely we are to see that thought manifested in our experience.
Experience | God | Order | Prayer | Thought | Think | Thought |