This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Lances and swords, marching bands, thrones and the salutes of others only increase his desire; he is engrossed in sexual desire.
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A woman should always think good of her family and should work according to her husband's wishes so that a peaceful, happy and cordial atmosphere prevails in the family.
One who makes a resolution and then makes sincere efforts to realize his dreams, nothing stops him from realizing his goal.
Enthusiasm | Success | Blessed |
Enshrine the Feet of the Guru within your heart; your pains, enemies and bad luck shall be destroyed.
Growth | Individual | Success |
Prayer has been made to mother earth that She blesses us with the knowledge required to exploit the treasures of the nature but without disturbing the environmental balance.
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Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
Children | Dependence | Energy | Glory | Judgment | Love | Memory | Mind | Order | Success | Teach | Truth |
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. Everything I did is on the record and, if you want to hear it, just listen to the record.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.
The secret I learned early on from my father was to run scared and never think I had it made. I never felt I was completely adequate to the job and always ran scared. The fundamental for our success was running scared.
Attention | Enthusiasm | Important | Means | Perfection |
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
Few persons will leave their families, connections, friends, and native land, to seek a settlement in untried foreign climes, without some strong subsisting causes of uneasiness where they are, or the hope of some great advantages in the place to which they are going.
Death | Earth | Inevitable | Man | Mankind | Power | Success | War | Work |
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Wisdom is the power that enables us to use knowledge for the benefit of ourselves and others.
Business | Individual | Progress | Success | Business |
As for democracy, the men of sense among us knew what it was, and I perhaps as well as any, as I have more cause to complain of it; but there is nothing new to be said of a patent absurdity-meanwhile we did not think it safe to alter it under the pressure of your hostility.