This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. D. Ross, fully Sir William David Ross
There is probably no act, for instance, which does good to anyone without doing harm to someone else, and vice versa.
Consideration | Duty | Gratitude | Justice | Need | People | Promise | Recompense | Self-improvement |
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
What a fool I am… Perhaps it is a fool's experience of life that most approximates Eden...a fool's paradise precluded to the very intelligent. Is Forest Gump's foolish life just one paradisical poem after another, each episode delivering him into Eden after Eden, physically, psychologically and spiritually? Does my anxious educated and socially conditioned thinking, occult my own manifested Edens?
Ego | Experience | Mystery | Power | Relationship | Sacrifice | Simplicity |
W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone
Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think and plan.
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked - who is good? Not that men are ignorant - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back?
Power |
W. B. Stevens, fully William Baker Stevens or William Bacon Stevens
Such in spirit is our prayer to-day. Make this house, O Lord God, Thy resting-place… Thy devout people, who worship here, ever rejoice in God's goodness, and shout aloud His praises in the beauty of holiness. Thus shall the services of this house prepare us for the higher services of the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens; and may this edifice prove to many successive generations of worshipers, as they pass in long-procession through these courts, none other but the house of God and the very gate of heaven.
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
Buried my wife the other day. Had to, she died.
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
If we are to appreciate the inner dynamics we don't need to change them or judge them. There is wisdom in each of the dynamics observed. To determine what you think should happen is placing the ego in charge of the show. When the deep beingness seeks a change you will know it. Otherwise the wisdom is to put oneself in accord with the Mystery. This is hard for anyone with degrees of control issues.
Challenge | Ego | Extreme | Mystery | Need | Phenomena | Power | Sense | Success | Time | Loss | Value |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
The cause of war is preparation for war.
Cruelty | Lord | Oppression | Power | Cruelty |
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
W. Brugh Joy, fully William Brugh Joy
The Heart Center is a transpersonal dimension or level. The Initiation forces are conducted in the dimension of Sacred Space, not in time and space, so we enter another dimension to access those forces. Through the daily attunement to the Heart Center there is a long-term transformation of the ego which then begins not only to orient to the Transcendent, to be responsive to the Transcendent, but there is also a birth into the dedicated ego, which is a transcendent kind of development which is neither the vast Deity itself, nor is it the ego-self – it is someplace in between, and has access to all the richness of compassion and healing.
Adventure | Awareness | Defense | Demeanor | Experience | Extreme | Giving | Important | Indifference | Knowledge | Law | Means | Power | Qualities | Sacred | Time | Understanding | Wholeness | Will | Awareness |
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
I feel like a midget with muddy feet has been walking over my tongue all night.
Extreme |
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,--the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
W. E. B. Du Bois, fully William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
Change | Children | Church | Courage | Events | Men | Parents | Power | Public | Religion | Revolution | Time | Will | World | Learn |
W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
Aims | Attainment | Childhood | Happy | Leisure | Life | Life | Little | Pleasure | Purpose | Purpose | Right | Rule | Will | Work | Happiness |
W. E. H. Lecky, fully William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The stately ship is seen no more, the fragile skiff attains the shore; and while the great and wise decay, and all their trophies pass away, some sudden thought, some careless rhyme, still floats above the wrecks of Time.
Age | Belief | Culture | Existence | Faith | Ideas | Imagination | Legends | Life | Life | Light | Little | Poetry | Religion | System | Time |
There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
Mind | Order | Pleasure | Self | Time | Understanding | Understand |
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Children live in the present. They feel that at any moment something tremendously exciting may happen. Successful teaching makes them feel that something tremendously exciting has happened. Preparation for the business worries of adult life does not meet this specification. Mathematics teaching is practical and purposeful only if it enables children to do better something they desperately want to do here and now.