This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Tim Gallwey, fully W. Timothy Gallwey
There is no need to fight old habits. Start new ones. It is the resisting of an old habit that puts you in that trench.
We are American farmers. We are Americans. We are farmers. Our grand sires freed this virgin continent,plowed it from East to West, and gave it to us.This land is for us and for our children to make richer and more fruitful. We grow foods, fibers - fifteen times as much as we use. We grow men and women -- farmers, Presidents, and Senators, generals of industry,captains of commerce, missionaries, builders. Communists would call us capitalists, because we own land and we own tools. Capitalists might choose to call us laborers,because we work with our hands. Others may call us managers, because we direct men and manage materials. Our children call us "Dad." We are also deacons, stockholders, mechanics, veterinarians, electricians, school board members, Rotarians, voters, scientists,neighbors, men of good will. Our rules are Nature's rules, the laws of God. We command the magic of the seasons and the miracles of science, because we obey Nature's rules. Our raw materials are soil and seed, animals, the atmosphere and the rain, and the mighty sun. We work with brains. We toil with musclesof steel, fed by the fires of lightning and boils from the inner earth. We are partners with the laboratory, with the factory, and with all the people. We provide industry with ever-renewable raw materials from the inexhaustible world of plants. We buy products from the labor of every fellow-citizen.Our efficiencies have raised great cities and happy towns, and have given all the people meat and bread. We believe in work and in honor We believe in freedom. We are grateful for the American freedom that has let us earn so many blessings. We know that liberty is our most precious possession. At the ballot-boxes and on the battlefield we shall defend it. We have proven a new pattern of abundance. We pray that we may also help to make a pattern for peace.
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William D. Hoard, fully William Dempster Hoard
The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can’t.
In truth until within the last ten or twelve years an Irish author never thought of publishing in his own country, and the consequence was that our literary men followed the example of our great landlords; they became absentees, and drained the country of its intellectual wealth precisely as the others exhausted it of its rents. Thus did Ireland stand in the singular anomaly of adding some of her most distinguished names to the literature of Great Britain, whilst she herself remained incapable of presenting anything to the world beyond a school-book or a pamphlet; and even of the latter it is well known that if the subject of it were considered important, and its author a man of any talent or station in society, it was certain to be published in London.
Creed | Existence | Life | Life | People | Success | Truth |
Hearses coffins, long funeral processions, and all the dark emblems of mortality, were reflected, as it were, on the sky, from the terrible works of pestilence and famine which were going on the earth beneath it.
Blessings | Creed | God | Happy | Heart | Ignorance | Industry | Knowledge | Order | People | Principles | Progress | Religion | Right | Society | Spirit | Vengeance | Worship | Youth | Society | Youth | God |
I would not enter in my list of friends, who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail that crawls at evening in the public path, but he has the humanity, forewarned, will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Wilhelm von Humboldt, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt
It is a truly sublime spectacle when in the stillness of the night, in an unclouded sky, the stars, like the world's choir, rise and set, and as it were divide existence into two portions,--the one, belonging to the earthly, is silent in the perfect stillness of night; whilst the other alone comes forth in sublimity, pomp, and majesty. Viewed in this light, the starry heavens truly exercise a moral influence over us; and who can readily stray into the paths of immorality if he has been accustomed to live amidst such thoughts and feelings, and frequently to dwell upon them? How are we entranced by the simple splendors of this wonderful drama of nature!
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
All we hear is “What’s the matter with the country?” “What’s the matter with the world?” There ain’t but one thing wrong with every one of us in the world, and that’s selfishness.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
We don’t have to worry about anything. No nation in the history of the world was ever sitting as pretty. If we want anything, all we have to do is go and buy it on credit.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive and punitive. Everything we buy should have its equal proportion of tax, outside of cheap food and cheap clothes.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.
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Werner Heisenberg, fully Werner Karl Heisenberg
In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of though, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.
Wernher von Braun, fully Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun
Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.
Inevitable | Man | Progress | Space | Thought | Work | Thought |
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.