This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"When you let intuition have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities." - Evelyn Underhill
"That that comes of a cat will catch mice." - Italian Proverbs
"Two cocks in one yard do not agree." - Italian Proverbs
"When the danger is past God is cheated." - Italian Proverbs
"You surround your vineyard with thorns - place doors and locks on your mouth. You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults." - Italian Proverbs
"Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions; transparency is politics' management of mistrust." - Ivan Krastev
"And Gandalf said: 'This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order it's beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
"But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien