This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.
Belief | Control | Important | Influence | Life | Life | Men | Need | Order | Power | Woman |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavor to thrust themselves into it; and since they can affect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
Belief | Disbelief | God | Omnipotence | God |
Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!
Advice | Belief | Deliberation | Prayer | Deliberation |
I do not like war and I do not like strikes, but I am unwilling to oppose all wars and for the same reason I am unwilling to say that strikes are wrong. Both are right and necessary and should be used when the cause of justice can be retained in no other way.
Absolute | Belief | Cause | Dependence | Learning | Question | Will | Friends |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
Belief | Confidence | Man |
Sam Walton, fully Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton
To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.
Shunryu Suzuki, also Daisetsu Teitaro or D.T. Suzuki or Suzuki-Roshi
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything
Absolute | Belief | Eternal | Insight | Life | Life | Logic | Man | Nature | Reason | Thinking | Zen |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.
If a person does good, most people will look for ulterior motives. People by training are very suspicious. Because most of the experiences they have had always had a condition attached, they don't expect others will do something just for the sake of doing it. Their belief systems just cannot accept others are capable of doing so. Our language is full of such sayings such as. One hand washes the other. ---You rub my back, I'll rub yours. In the study of one's personal language and self talk it can be observed that what one thinks and talks about to himself tends to become the deciding influences n his life. For what the mind attends to, the mind considers.
Belief | Change | Mind | Pain | People | Trouble | Circumstance | Truths |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
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