This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
People should be very careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.
Age | Enough | Fear | Knowledge | Right | Speculation | Thought | Wrong | Privilege | Thought |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
People don't care what you know. They just want to know that you care.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I have just this moment heard from the front — there is nothing yet of a movement, but each side is continually on the alert, expecting something to happen.
Age | Beginning | Heaven | Hell | Perfection | Will | Youth | Youth |
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
There's a man in the world who is never turned down, wherever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers make hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the naive self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty, during which men . . . forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice. . . They forgot that their rights were founded on their duties. . . They thought it clever to be cynical, enlightened to be unbelieving, and sensible to be soft.
Age | Better | Impression | Intelligence | Judgment | Will |
Walter J. Ong, fully Walter Jackson Ong
Thought is nested in speech, not in texts, all of which have their meanings through reference of the visible symbol to the world of sound. What the reader is seeing on this page are not real words but coded symbols whereby a properly informed human being can evoke in his or her consciousness real words, in actual or imagined sound.
Achievement | Age | Attention | Present | Sense | Tyranny | World |
Round a turn of the Qin Fortress winds the Wei River, and Yellow Mountain foot-hills enclose the Court of China; past the South Gate willows comes the Car of Many Bells on the upper Palace-Garden Road-a solid length of blossom; a Forbidden City roof holds two phoenixes in cloud; the foliage of spring shelters multitudes from rain; and now, when the heavens are propitious for action, here is our Emperor ready-no wasteful wanderer.
Well I remember how you smiled to see me write your name upon the soft sea-sand . . . "O! what a child! You think you're writing upon stone! I have since written what no tide shall ever wash away, what men unborn shall read o'er ocean wide and find Ianthe's name again.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
I need all the help I can get -- and Ken has certainly provided it,
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
That inexhaustible good-nature which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits it. He fits into it as he fits into his clothes. He will always fit into it. When he gets out of the car and I meet him and hug him, there he is, him himself, something of my very own forever, and my love for him goes all around him just as it did when he was a baby and a little boy and a young man grown.