This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.
Choice | Government | Happy | Individual | Life | Life | Money | People | Government |
Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of Dickens. Is it a sign of superior intellect to read anything and everything unmoved, in a grey, unfeeling Limbo?
I feel that what is wrong with scores of modern novels which show literary quality, but which are repellent and depressing to the spirit is not that the writers have rejected a morality, but that they have one which is unexamined, trivial, and lopsided. They have a base concept of life; they bring immense gusto to their portrayals of what is perverse, shabby, and sordid, but they have no clear notion of what is Evil; the idea of Good is unattractive to them, and when they have to deal with it, they do so in terms of the sentimental or the merely pathetic. Briefly, some of them write very well, but they write from base minds that have been unimproved by thought or instruction. They feel, but they do not think. And the readers to whom they appeal are the products of our modern universal literacy, whose feeling is confused and muddled by just such reading, and who have been deluded that their mental processes are indeed a kind of thought.
He was born into, and seems never to have questioned, that English class system which has been so much abused in the present century. Indeed, several governments have announced their intention of abolishing it, and the most recent prime minister to retire showed her egalitarian principles by accepting the title of Baroness Thatcher.
Intention | Present | Principles | System | Title |
Robert Benchley, fully Robert Charles Benchley
In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen.
The novels and poems which proceed from writers in the grip of this barren pessimism are of the kind which make narrow moralists fume, and use words like decadence; the writers rejoice, because making narrow moralists (who are usually frightened people) hop with rage is a sign that they have hit a mark, and they do not understand how poor and easy a mark it is.
Novels | Pessimism | Rage | Words | Understand |
Robert Heilbroner, fully Robert Louis Heilbroner
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
Government | Government |
Robert Heilbroner, fully Robert Louis Heilbroner
The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society.
Government | Government |
Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.
Capitalism | Democracy | History | Organization | Society | Society |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.
Obedience | Revolution | Rule | Understanding |
Rosa Luxemburg, aka Rosalia Luxemburg, "Bloody Rosa"
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
People | Plan | Struggle | Understanding | Weapons | Learn |
I’d like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed. I have always encouraged my restaurant Operators and team members to give back to the local community. We should be about more than just selling chicken; we should be a part of our customer’s lives and the communities in which we serve.
Difficulty | Inferiority | Words | Work |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Bitterness | Danger | Extreme | Government | Important | People | Public | Reform | System | Temptation | Will | Government | Danger | Temptation |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
We behold, then, by the sight of the mind, in that eternal truth from which all things temporal are made, the form according to which we are, and according to which we do anything true and right reason, either in ourselves, or in things corporeal.
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Sam Walton, fully Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton
A computer can tell you down the dime what you’ve sold. But it can never tell you how much you could have sold.
Science | Service | Understand |