This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition.
Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel.
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.
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J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
We must, I think, regard the normal death as a feature characteristic of life. Normal death is sometimes regarded as a wearing out of the machinery of life; but it is evidently a quite unsuitable metaphor, since living structure, when we consider it closely, can easily be seen to be constantly renewing itself, so that it cannot be regarded as mere machinery which necessarily wears out. Normal death must apparently be regarded from the biological standpoint as a means by which room is made for further more definite development of life.
Democracy is the only game in town. The problem is [when] people start to believe that it is not a game worth playing.