This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
The future doesn't belong to the faint of heart. It belongs to the brave.
Consequences | Credit | Faith | Value |
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side and his nobler instincts - and another woman to help him forget them.
Consequences | Man | Punishment |
Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.
Belief | Consequences | World |
As you make your bed, so you will sleep. (A person must take the responsibility for the results of his own unwise actions; just as a man who makes his bed badly will certainly sleep uncomfortably.)
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Pause and reflect, for the day of death is approaching. I beg you, therefore, with all possible respect, not to forget the Lord or turn away from His commandments by reason of the cares and preoccupations of this world, for all those who are oblivious of Him and turn away from His commands are cursed and will be totally forgotten by Him (Ex. 33:13). And when the day of death does come, everything which they think they have will be taken from them. And the wiser and more powerful they may have been in this world, so much greater will be the punishments they will endure in hell (cf. Wis. 6:7)
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Although it be with truth that you speak evil, this is also a crime.
Consequences | Death | Dread | Judgment |
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
For too long the issue of government aid to church related organizations has been a divisive force in our society and in the Congress. It has erected communication barriers among our religions and fostered intolerance.
Consequences | Force | Men | Serenity | Strength |
As if religion was intended For nothing else but to be mended.
Consequences | Philosophy | Rule |
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Consequences | Excess |
Freedom of speech is the safety valve of society; if it is obstructed, there will be an explosion somewhere. It is dangerous to tamper with this right of ours.
Consequences | Knowledge | Right | Will |
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.
Every child is musical. Unfortunately this natural gift is squelched before it has time to develop. From my all life experience I remember being laughed at because my voice and the words I sang didn't please someone. My second grade teacher, Miss Stone would not let me sing with the rest of the class because she judged my voice as not musical and she said I threw the class off key. I believed her which led to the blockage of my appreciation of music and blocked my ability to write poetry. Fortunately at the age of 57 I had a significant emotional event which unblocked my ability to composed poetry which many people believe have lyrical qualities.
Awareness | Behavior | Better | Choice | Consequences | Expectation | Giving | Important | Opportunity | People | Reason | Receive | Will | Awareness | Expectation |
The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow. And since the only real freedom a person has is the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible for the outcomes he gets.
Blame | Circumstances | Consequences | Means | People | Responsibility | Society | Will | Society |
When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown-ups, to behave, to be good. It never occurred to me that I was always behaving in some manner. But I didn't have the awareness or skill to ask those grown-ups what they meant when they told me to behave and to be good. Now I realize that all they wanted was for me to conform to their idea of what was good and not to do what they called bad behavior, which they sometimes changed at will. Even today people are still telling me how I should behave, but now I ask what they mean and sometimes it drives them up a wall.
Consequences | Emotions | Looks | Means | People | Price | Risk | Will | Work |
The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.
Consequences | History | Inevitable | Little |
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies—for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome words of sycophantic insincerity, praising him as the light of the universe (in hopes, no doubt, for a few ducats to support future work); this old practice makes me feel like such an honest and upright man, by comparison, when I put a positive spin, perhaps ever so slightly exaggerated, on a grant proposal.
Consequences | Love | Relationship |
How can one tell in an actual experiment on some system in nature to what extent intrinsic randomness generation is really the mechanism responsible? …The clearest sign is a somewhat unexpected phenomenon: …if intrinsic randomness generation is…at work, then the precise details of the behavior can… be repeatable.
Consequences | Power | Universe | Weakness |
Over the years, I have watched with disappointment the continuing failure of most scientists and mathematicians to grasp the idea of doing computer experiments on the simplest possible systems… [Mathematicians] tend to add features to make their systems fit in with complicated and abstract ideas—often related to continuity—that exist in modern mathematics. …One might imagine that the best way to be certain about what could possibly happen in some particular system would be to prove a theorem… But in my experience… it is easy to end up making implicit assumptions that can be violated by circumstances one cannot foresee. And indeed, by now, I have come to trust the correctness of conclusions based on simple systematic computer experiments much more than I trust all but the simplest proofs.
Computer | Consequences | History | Important | Nature | Reason | Theoretical |
Theodore Dreiser, fully Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Consequences | Difficulty | Thinking |
War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare.
Admiration | Business | Consequences | Enemy | Excess | Greed | Man | Perfection | Policy | Property | Regard | Slander | Wealth | Slander | Business |