The Hollow [X] Spoken in Another Realm

Prelude

People of Political Importance

Aristotle
"All human beings, by nature, desire to know"
"A friend is a second self."
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."
"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
"Wit is educated insolence."
"Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing."
"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
"Hope is a waking dream."
"It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way."
"One swallow does not make a summer."
"To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence."
"We make war that we may live in peace."
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
Mahatma Gandhi
"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
Benjamin Franklin
"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
"Well done is better than well said."
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind."

Comedians

George Carlin
"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
"Women like silent men, they think they're listening."
"Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money!"
"The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music."
"The very existence of flame-throwers prooves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"
"I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories."
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
"Electricity is really just organized lightning."
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
"Chickens are decent people."
"I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
"Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it."
" Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
Robin Williams
"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time"

Scientists

Albert Einstein: "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

Authors

Mark Twain
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
Charles Dickens
"He would make a lovely corpse"
Tom Clancy
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

Bumper Stickers

""Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?""

Proverbs by those Unknown