This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
Adolescence | Aesthetic | Authority | Duty | Learning | Little | Looks | Man | Nature | Need | Peace | Pleasure | Reading | Taste | War | Work | Learn |
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone
You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.
Objectives | Present | Will |
W. D. Ross, fully Sir William David Ross
There is probably no act, for instance, which does good to anyone without doing harm to someone else, and vice versa.
Consideration | Duty | Gratitude | Justice | Need | People | Promise | Recompense | Self-improvement |
W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone
The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.
W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone
That's why many fail -- because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Will |
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
Nature | Question | Speculation | Technology |
W. Edwards Deming, fully William Edwards Deming
Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.
Vitruvius, fully Marcus Vitruvius Pollio NULL
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
As long as the bourgeois parliament remains a means of duping the workers, and phrases about “democracy” are used to cover up financial swindling and every kind of bribery (the particularly “subtle” brand of bribery the bourgeoisie practice with regard to writers, N.P.s, lawyers, and others is nowhere to be seen on so wide a scale as in the bourgeois parliament), we Communists are in duty bound to be in this very institution (which is supposed to express the people’s will but actually covers up the deception of the people by the wealthy) to untiringly expose this deception, and expose each and every case of the Renners and Co.’s desertion to the capitalists, against the workers
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.
Problems | Revolution | Will | Learn |
Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
Bourgeoisie | Desire | Freedom | Will |