This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Personal growth is often the result not of doing something new, but of seeing the same things in a new light. We all have mental maps of our world that we mistake for the actual territory. By clinging on to old maps we fail to see the true lie of the land and get lost.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
The medical establishment, focusing on pathology and chemical treatment by drugs, has long equated diet with what’s put on hospital trays. Even today, when five of America’s major health problems – heart, liver, cancer, diabetes and cerebrovascular diseases – have been proved to be related to diet, just 23 percent of American medical schools require a course in nutrition, and many offer none.
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Conscience | Memory | Mistake | People |
The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don’t understand and aren’t prepared to cope with. I know. I am a peasant myself.
Hurry | Mistake | World | Understand |
There are two benefits, of which the generality of men are losers, and of which they do not know the value, health and leisure.
Thomas Lickona, fully Thomas Edward Lickona
Schools cannot be ethical bystanders at a time when our society is in deep moral trouble. Rather, schools must do what they can to contribute to the character of the young and the moral health of the nation.