This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
Argument | Good | Opportunity | Wisdom |
In our thinking we must preserve an open and enquiring mind, an ability to see things through the eyes of our opponents, a skill for understanding the motives and thoughts of those whom we oppose. Yet we must act in the light of the best knowledge and reason available to us at the moment.
Ability | Character | Knowledge | Light | Mind | Motives | Reason | Skill | Thinking | Understanding | Wisdom |
Knowledge does not comprise all which is contained in the large term of education. The feelings are to be disciplined; the passions are to be restrained; true and worthy motives are to be inspired; a profound religious feeling is to be instilled, and pure morality inculcated under all circumstances. All this is comprised in education.
Character | Circumstances | Education | Feelings | Knowledge | Morality | Motives |
Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.
Character | Life | Life | Opportunity | Perseverance | Success | Talent |
Brown v. Board of Education NULL
Today education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expenditures for education both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society. It is required in the performance of our most basic public responsibilities, even service in the armed forces. It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him to adjust normally to his environment. In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.
Awakening | Citizenship | Education | Good | Important | Life | Life | Opportunity | Public | Right | Service | Society | Training | Wisdom | Child |
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Government | Men | Office | Opportunity | Wisdom | Work | Government | Happiness |
Edgar Cayce, known as the "Sleeping Prophet"
When you are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
Opportunity | Wisdom |
Roy D. Chapin, Jr., fully Roy Dikeman Chapin, Jr.
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Luck | Opportunity | Time | Wisdom | Luck |
Chinese Family Planning Center Pamphlet NULL
Marriage is not a finished affair. No matter to what age you live, love must be continuously consolidated. Being considerate, thoughtful and respectful without ulterior motives is the key to a satisfactory marriage.
When difficulties confront you, baptize them opportunity and set the man inside you to finding the way to turn them from difficulties into opportunities.
Man | Opportunity | Wisdom |
It is in education more than anywhere else that we have sincerely striven to carry into execution "the Great American Dream": the vision of a longer and fuller life for the ordinary man, a life of widened freedom, of equal opportunity for each to make of himself all that he is capable of becoming.
Education | Freedom | Life | Life | Man | Opportunity | Vision | Wisdom |
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
Beginning | Nothing | Opportunity | Service | Wisdom |
We cannot have jobs and opportunities if we surrender our freedom to Government control... We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society.
Control | Freedom | Government | Opportunity | Security | Society | Surrender | Wisdom | Government |
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Opportunity | Right | Service | Wisdom |
Nothing is so often irrevocably neglected as an opportunity of daily occurrence.
Nothing | Opportunity | Wisdom |
One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
Failure | Opportunity | Wisdom | Failure |
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often he has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Circumstances | Control | Judgment | Man | Opportunity | Surplus | Wisdom |