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Screenplays by Hamnet Wall:
LOVE'S SUPERHERO
BROTHER V BROTHER CO-EMPERORS
HACK FOR SUCCESS
QUOTES by William Hamnet Wall from screenplay:
LOVE'S SUPERHERO
The heart closing blinds our eyes.
Joy kills more fear than courage can.
No one ever goes to heaven by confessing the sins of someone else.
Free will is God's gift to you. Integrity is gratitude to God.
A lake is moved by the smallest pebble falling. Our prayer itself is God responding.
What is no forgiveness, but love of self? What is forgiveness, but love of God?
Prayer is listening, not asking.
Love dignifies suffering.
Bitterness is the illusion that others cause our emptiness.
Every scientific error had the support of logic.
Science, like an old atheist on his deathbed, has discovered God despite himself.
Reason needs permission to contemplate eternal things. Faith can give reason a sacred space to consider things beyond the reach of logic. Faith is the Sabbath of reason.
_________
“ANTIOCH, FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH FOUNDED BY ST PETER, DAMASCUS, SYRIA” is shown.
JESUS
(Trembling and feverish on the altar, holding Aaron’s Rod for balance)
I am asked often about the afterlife,
how strange it seems that the spirit
can survive the body’s dissolution;
I ask you, did spirit exist before
your birth? So, I say that spirit
persists after death. We can learn from
The Lemon Tree.
The afterlife occurs to me,
When looking at a potted tree.
Bright lemons hang upon its boughs,
At odds with what the pot endows:
The common dirt and water drop
Create this flaming-yellow crop,
As strange as if a mammal’s womb
Gives birth to fleas or to a broom.
Jesus smiles. His quizzical look and voice when he said “gives birth to fleas or to a broom” made several children chuckle.
If alchemy in plants revise,
Cannot the womb of death surprise?
If lemons come from dew and earth,
Then maybe death is only birth.
________________________
Ben dies.
JESUS
Holy Father, ascend this soldier into your kingdom.
Sanctify his soul so that angels crowd the gates of heaven
for his welcome.
from Screenplays by William Hamnet Wall
QUOTES FROM SCREENPLAY:
BROTHER V BROTHER CO-EMPERORS
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Marcus Aurelius
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same
weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
Marcus Aurelius
“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Man's character is his fate.”
Heraclitus (500 BC)
”He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."
Aeschylus
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QUOTES by William Hamnet Wall from screenplay:
BROTHER V BROTHER CO-EMPERORS
Does not greater power also put mercy on her throne, and lend dignity to restraint?
Shadows are no heavier than light.
Love is like the sun. Nothing is lost if it shines on another.
Such as the falcon from his lofty flight
Might rest upon some verdant branches spied,
So I, Lucilla, in my mind's travel sight
A restful cottage where sweet thoughts abide.
Hatred is a shameless confession about feeling powerless.
Behavior is thoughts that we can no longer conceal.
The strongest proof for God is that vice can never make us happy.
The Leaf
I breathed upon a leaf,
It fluttered.
Love breathed upon my heart;
I shuddered.
It danced with fragrant winds
At night.
I frolicked with love's risk,
Delight.
It sent its gentle shade
Across.
I shadowed joy with fears
Of loss.
It drank from deepest root,
And died.
But I betrayed true love,
And lied.
It fell to ground with seed,
And grew.
A leaf knows love, not I,
Not you.
Envy is reluctant praise.
Vice prevents pleasure and happiness from coexisting.
Kissing bugs inject anesthesia before drinking your blood. Hatred numbs your conscience before revenge can
spawn.
Sits every boy and girl upon their throne,
We build their castles in the skies
So youthful joy survives though overthrown,
In spite what sovereignty denies.
Giving hatred is the poison, not receiving it.
Strangled conscience murmurs your name against free will.
Philosophy proves the meaningless is also boring.
What can I write that Love's mute eloquence
Has not a thousand times more aptly shown,
What gift that kisses won't more love convey
Than rhymes or sweets or fragrant flowers blown?
QUOTES by William Hamnet Wall from screenplay:
HACK FOR SUCCESS
People with low self-esteem ought to be ashamed of themselves.
This place is so depressing that I do suicide hotline work to cheer up.
Mistakes shouldn't have consequences; it makes nature look irresponsible.
If suicide is selfish, murder is flat-out inconsiderate.
Being called selfish after suicide explains why living seemed cruel.
I want to eat healthy and be free, not like Jeffrey Dahmer in prison.
Cause and effect feel like design flaws.
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MARIA
(self-absorbed)
“Human life, like all other inferior goods, is sprinkled with a false glitter.” Schopenhauer.
BO
(smiling)
From his suicide note?
Maria shakes her head. Bo looks confused.
BO (CONT’D)
(squinting)
Where did THAT come from?
MARIA
From the Middle and Old English word thaet.
BO
I meant that old quote.
MARIA
From his quill.
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Romance dies when love tolerates weakness.
It's hard to turn down free money, especially during a bank robbery.
Suicide is wrong because depression is only temporary and worthless, like life.
Before committing suicide, think of those whom you deeply love, how they betray you and don't care if you die.
Don't let discouragement sidetrack your confusion.
Would you rather marry a man who would give every luxury away to get his integrity back or give his integrity
away to get you back?
Healing means tears can make you happy.
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People fear capitalism as though it were anarchy, yet free markets require consent before
transactions occur.
Pangs of conscience are labor pains of love.
Utopias are the delusion that serfdom can be spiritualized.
If socialism worked, it wouldn't need capitalism to finance it.
Capitalism is the alchemy of competence turning into gold.
Capitalism prevents slavery by allowing labor to benefit the one who toils.
Capitalism proves that opportunity does not cure poverty.
Communism fails because loss of freedom cannot cure poverty.
Capitalism codifies civil rights into free markets.
Socialism perverts the focus of charity from giving to receiving, from generosity to entitlement.
When profit is forbidden the seller, value is denied the buyer.
No government that takes away property rights will leave religious freedom unmolested.
Capitalism is the conduit from desire to form, thought to matter, and a dream to marketplace.
Nothing is so beautiful that force cannot uglify it. Adding force to work, sex or charity defines slavery, rape and socialism.
Socialism is the art of giving away other people's money to feel generous.
The European cuckoo bird, who because it cannot build a nest itself, lays its egg in that of the reed warbler, then forgoes all maternal duties. The host is unwittingly left to feed this humongous gluttonous impostor who mimics the sound of warbler chicks, and evacuates the home of all rival eggs. Socialism is the cuckoo bird of society, who because it cannot produce products itself, usurps the nest of capitalism while it mimics charitable concern for the poor.
Only a thief thinks earning something shows more greed than stealing it.
Only two won’t fight for liberty: the slave and the tyrant.
Parasite as leader is the squalid paradigm of politics.
Poverty is not caused by idleness, any more than cows are lazy for not producing milk. One must first be pregnant to lactate, be fertilized with a purpose to serve others, and suffer labor pains to acquire skills.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul are both crimes against humanity.
Socialism requires two types of greed: wanting more for yourself than you have earned, and wanting less for another who has earned it.
Some tyrannies survive longer as parasites than as despot.
Surplus of one person creates no entitlement for another.
The Civil War proved that slavery is not free labor. Socialism proves that welfare is not free money.
The most sinister exploitation of the poor is rewarding inertia.
There is nothing worthy that requires a victim to achieve it.
The tragedy of socialism is not that it robs money from the rich, but self-reliance from the poor.
Tyranny is utopia for those in power.
What cannot coexist with liberty is evil.
When profit is forbidden the seller, value is denied the buyer.
Being cruel to the innocent and permissive to the guilty spawn from the same pathology.
Capitalism codifies civil rights into free markets.
Capitalism curbs greed because giving value must come before earning profit.
Many drink sea water and die than to live with thirst a while.
Gratitude is more rare than generosity.
When you focus on the problem, your solution is wrong.
Gift 1 Self-Interest - Capitalism Curbs Greed
Gift 2 Attraction - The Law of Attraction Becoming Tangible
Gift 3 Profit - Profit is Spiritual
Gift 4 Opportunity - Equal Opportunity Proves the Morality of Free Markets
Gift 5 Reality - Reality is the Highest Good
Gift 6 Incentive - Capitalism Spiritualizes Incentive by Linking It to Joy
Gift 7 Communion - Free Markets Bridge Group Animosities
Gift 8 Competence - Competence Turns Joy into Gold
Gift 9 Merit - Competition Reveals Merit
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I have only two objections to opera: the words and music.
With one flower in the vase, focus blooms naturally.
What imagination discovers, it takes logic a century to prove. Logic relies on faith before evidence.
Goals are often signposts to proven failure.
Emotions are like horses, stronger than what reins them in.
Gossip is like prostitution; it shames the buyer too.
Gossip is slander disguised as scruples.
Whoever labors is entitled to wages. Socialists pay those who won't work with another's wage.
Envy's shame is condemning what it privately admires.
I will never minimize evil, unless I'm the culprit.
It is equally charitable to receive with love than to give with it.
We should fear government because most tyranny first becomes a law.
God is the only mystery that awaits our answer.
Whoever would take your freedom to keep you safe, will take your safety to keep their power.
Shadows are no heavier than light.
People with low self-esteem ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Democracies turn fascist when individual liberty becomes the minority vote.
You're never a slave for being captive, only for not leaving after the door opens.
Socialists tear down castles to build slums.
Like the prodigal son, science is coming home to religion after squandering its fortune on the harlots of materialism.
Both mind and heart mislead us: one by the wrong direction, the other by giving up too soon.
Justice is most devoutly loved by those not on the docket.
Revolution without victims is enlightenment.
Monopolies abuse power because by having one choice, customers become the commodity.
Eyes fixed on the past, castrate the will to look beyond.
Most cults have only one member.
Socialism is like a tapeworm. It starves others to stay alive.
Virtue allows pleasure and happiness to coexist.
A caged songbird transcends its captor two ways: singing or dying.
Without integrity, leaders create followers, not progress.
Joy kills more fear than courage can.
Atheism proves that not all dogmatic zeal is religious.
I don't expect unconditional praise, but that's the only time I believe you.
Conditions of life become your fate the moment you stop transcending them.
Searching for God is travelling too far.
There are no human rights that breach the liberty of another.
Inner weakness requires external focus.
Emails are very convenient until I delete 13,000 a day.
Science and religion are both pilgrims. One seeks proof, the other epiphany.
Silence is God's homily.
Stars we see have died long ago; so victim status sees tyranny that no longer exists.
You cannot buy happiness because it requires giving.
In capitalism, income inequality is determined by happy customers.
People with low self-esteem ought to be ashamed of themselves.
The most durable form of slavery will use laws as chains.
American Indians hallow the spirit of an animal before eating it. Socialists condemn fruits of another's labor before consuming them.
Alcohol is flammable so it can easily burn bridges.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul are both crimes against humanity.
Zealots burn science books too.
A family either has a father in the home or victim mentality in the child.
The zealot in power is usually more dangerous than the one burning at the stake.
Victim mentality must kill your conscience before it awakens your rage.
Hatred's intensity comes from being untethered from conscience.
Hatred is a perpetrator disguised as victim.
When religion rejects science, it's called the Dark Ages. How can the reverse be enlightenment?
So long as a wound is kept open, victim status appears legitimate.
Tyrants preach anarchy to gain power, then condemn it to retain control.
A sheep is true to itself when it follows the shepherd.
Addiction turns pleasure into despair.
The wisdom to give advice naturally repels us from those who need it.
Alimony is a marriage tax on narcissism.
Faith without truth is a cult in action.
Like lodgepole pine cones that only open after a fire, socialism needs infernal unrest to germinate.
An agnostic is an atheist whose faith is wavering.
Atheism is far more denial of God's existence, than of his existence.
We reject a simple solution when we lack character to face the problem.
Every act is dress rehearsal for who we're becoming.
If socialism worked, it wouldn't need capitalism to finance it
No one ever goes to heaven by confessing the sins of someone else.
Behavior is thoughts that we can no longer conceal.
No substance, no echo. No God, no meaning.
If our form predates our birth, then life has meaning before conception.
By defining poverty as lack of money, skills and character become irrelevant.
Science does not have saints because its errors signify progress.
Selling your soul devalues everything you bargained for.
Victimhood is mental anorexia. No proof will change its mind.
Arrogance is high self-esteem without virtue.
The unconscious is a kind doctor prescribing nightmares to purge our arrogance.
Poetry is the translation of passion into beauty.
Self-pity is a way of being a martyr without becoming a saint.
Self-pity allows being selfish to feel moral.
Lilies of the field are a dream come true. Dream beautifully.
Socialism reaps but cannot sow, cuts down a forest, but cannot plant one.
Socialists may harvest our crops in fall, but are never toiling in the spring.
Like fruit on a bough, freedom rots before it falls.
One cause of global warming is infernal hatred of nonconformity.
Like Beauty and the Beast, love is clairvoyant not blind.
Stupidity is no destination, only stepping stones to a life of failure.
Is ignorance just sacred mysteries unsolved or just stupidity?
Feeling inferior seeks everywhere for oppressor, except in mirror.
Being a victim does not justify becoming a perpetrator.
Behavior is the alchemy of thought becoming character.
We mistake the intensity of our beliefs for their veracity.
We'll always believe the bible in your heart before the one in hand.
The sooner you blame other people, the more time they have to fix your problem.
Bitterness is the illusion that others cause our emptiness.
Entitlement is the sugar coating on the poison pill of dependency.
Some movies fail because the book is out of focus. I've never seen a poor Shakespeare film.
Television has reached a new low! It somehow has me watching complete trash.
The beauty of capitalism is the freedom it employs, not the products it creates.
More atrocities have been committed within the law than outside of it.
Like undertakers think profit if someone dies, socialist elites benefit from more poverty.
Most shoplifters have money in pocket. Most envy is deficient character not talent.
Small joys added together outshine raptures of single delight.
Not seeing the good will suffice to spawn bitterness.
I love honest feedback when it's unconditional praise.
Holocausts need government's blessing.
Scope of absolute power can be limited; trap a spider under glass, you've become its despot.
Healing means tears can make us happy.
Strangled conscience murmurs your name against free will.
I try not to judge others about their sleazy and demonic behavior.
Pimps offer protection to steal profits; cancel culture saves your job if you're silent.
A secret creates an intimate bond between you and all those you tell.
Hitler's other legacy is castrating Europe with socialism.
Does it take more greed to earn something or to take it?
Before the saint feeds the poor, capitalism makes the bread.
We live our dreams. Fixation on potential is emotional death.
A champion doesn't abandon others at the top; they leave him once they can't compete.
Visualize grandiose success. It's the first important step to false hope.
Hatred predates the offence; hate is a cause not an effect.
Ever noticed that successful rich people are unhappy and sloppy broke people are joyful? Me neither.
Charity is voluntary charity, pleasing to God. Socialism is involuntary charity, pleasing to tyrants
War can empower allies to become enemies.
Paranoids often need a little narcissism to believe they're a worthy target.
Love is like the sun. Nothing is lost if it shines on another.
I hate arguments because they imply I could be wrong.
Mirrors blind compassion.
Men speak in words because they are tongue-tied in symbols.
Capitalism cannot be wholly controlled by government because it survives in captivity.
Cathedrals are missionaries.
Centralized power has one pattern: promise utopia, deliver tyranny.
Without conscience, even laws become depraved.
Hypocrisy must never be tolerated, unless I'm somehow involved.
Our Republic protects the minority opinion from the tyranny of democracy.
I don't believe your criticism, but your praise seems credible.
Dictators brutalize the majority; democracies transgress minority rights.
Without discipline, free-will can torment you.
Socialists must break the spirit of what it saddles. Capitalism gets permission to ride.
Delusions would not exist if truth were palatable.
Hatred is morality without conscience.
We break God's laws, then pray for miracles.
When temper is short, grudges are long.
Capitalism creates happy customers before income inequality can happen; socialist power inequality requires force.
One mountain has a thousand echoes, gratitude a thousand charities.
Hate shrieks because conscience whispers.
Because capitalism funds charity, it is the golden goose of philanthropy.
Believing in only invisible God is also atheism.
Kissing bugs inject anesthesia before drinking your blood. Hatred numbs your conscience before revenge can spawn.
Ingratitude is spiritual twin of inadequate giving.
Socialism is power inequality pretending to cure income inequality.
Never trust fear when not in danger.
Scientific conclusions about the unknown also require faith.
A lake is moved by the smallest pebble falling. Our prayer itself is God responding.
Faith allows certainty and what's unknow to coexist.
In the long run, hard work is the easiest path.
If you focus on the problem, your solution is wrong.
Fake news is like prostitution. Most buyers are anonymous, and sellers like haughty pimps.
Real talent is like gold. It's rare because very few dig deep enough.
Blaming poverty on the rich is like blaming Shakespeare for illiteracy.
A hand closed to giving will not open in gratitude.
The best hiding place for greed is stealing from the rich.
Paranoia is clairvoyant about evil but blind to good.
Quickest way to build trust is mutual paranoia.
Income inequality fix: either make customers happier or steal from the rich.
Truth is elusive because dishonesty hides.
Self-pity inhibits praising others more than their lack of merit.
Revenge kills the conscience of the victim.
Blossoms presage the flower's death; beauty herself is a eulogy.
Charisma is being charmed by others.
Slavery's "free labor" and socialism's "free money" are both feudalism.
When joy and hope die, suicide becomes an orphan.
Faith moves the mountain when she disbelieves her eyes.
I do abstract paintings, even though they begin as portraits.
I'm not judging you, just sending you to hell.
Where no limb is, pain can still exist; so pangs are felt after conscience is buried.
Children need dreams to feel power, adults to feel hope.
Democracy is dictatorship against the minority.
Some wounds heal without scars; some victims heal without revenge.
Logic needs miracles to draw her boundaries.
Failure never defines you, only your lack of success.
Trying is enough if success isn't your goal.
Politics is elitist power disguised as equality.
If suicide is selfish, murder is flat-out inconsiderate.
Being called selfish after suicide explains why living seemed cruel.
American snobs can be broke, drunk and stupid.
Addiction as a disease makes discipline a placebo.
For every hundred Van Goghs, only one Theo lives. A great brother is more rare than genius.
History's heroic struggle is not for safety, but freedom.
If your standards are low enough, failure is impossible.
Conscience keeps us from hurting others, character from hurting yourself.
Faith may be blind, but reason follows her lead.
Einstein proved that matter and energy never die. Now, living can torment us instead of dying.
I hate distractions when I'm doing nothing.
Some movies only need two revisions: delete dialogue and images.
Only one diet always works: botulism.
Demand for victim status far exceeds the supply of tyranny.
Religion is a theory of evolution where man turns into a beast.
Jesus says to love your enemies. It makes holidays a lot easier.
Entitlement allows failing to feel like injustice.
Failure is just a second chance to blame others.
If time is money, unemployment would make you rich.
Most dreams die when you awake; real ones begin.
Hearing a lie seems more offensive than telling one.
The heart closing blinds our eyes.
Opportunity doesn't guarantee ability.
Without opportunity, ability is useless. Without ability, opportunity is useless.
Blame doesn't hide your faults, nor umbrellas the rain.
Anonymity is truth serum.
You won't need excuses if you never take responsibility.
A true friend is hard to find, especially among strangers.
Truth doesn't always build trust. We'd rather not be mugged than hear a quote from Confucius.
Everyone is offensive, if you love them enough.
Without strong love, very few people would marry for money.
Arranged marriage is less a business transaction than any divorce.
Most marriages become arranged after the honeymoon, without parental consent.
Beautiful advice says to give until it hurts, or at least until you're homeless.
Praise the lonely, unless they killed the people they miss.
The propaganda I believe is true, including the lies.
Delusions cause more suicides than truth.
Be honest about faults. How else can other people learn?
If you can't handle the truth, delusions come in handy.
Increased life expectancy means aging just got harder.
Clothes are poetry for the body.
I prefer long-established, high-yield investments like get-rich-quick schemes.
Sometimes we need professional advice, like for bad investments.
Always give people a second chance, unless they amputate the wrong leg.
Technically, premeditated murder is not a mistake.
If we create our own reality, we owe God an apology.
Hating capitalism is like hating pigs, but loving bacon.
People who don't understand me are often people I've never met.
Being humble is rare, and superior to all other traits.
The number one cause of death is poor health.
Most Americans die of a heart attack from their hospital bill.
If laughter was universal, I'd laugh at jokes in Urdu.
My future looks bright if I can just ignore the present.
Railroads bring us back to a simpler time, family picnics and slave labor.
I trust my judgment, even if I’m unreasonable.
Technology is actually old-fashioned, like having no rights or privacy again.
Learning from mistakes is like brushing a tooth after extraction.
If you hate to change, live only in the past.
We only use 10% of our brain and computer. I just learned that on/off is the same button.
Always follow your heart, except during crimes of passion.
Psychiatrists are the only experts who need more help than their clients.
Every year, college education becomes more valuable to the lender.
Making people laugh can't be faked. No wonder comedians are more loved than compulsive liars.
Brutality in nature is called the circle of life, and genocide a temper flare-up.
A tiger that only mauls someone in its cage, deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
Things are too commercial if the Nativity scene has Santa Claus as a wise man.
Things are too commercial if your eulogy includes, now a a word from our sponsor.
Things are too commercial if there's product placement in your casket.
They say you can hear ocean waves inside a seashell, and in a box of Jell-O, screams of Bill Cosby in prison.
Civility is so rare, my grandma's sugar cookies are shaped like her middle finger.
Civility is so rare, even carjackers won't open your door.
Civility is so rare at hotels, the mint on my pillow looks like a horse head.
Civility is so rare, M&Ms now say FUs.
They say death is only part of life, as losing fingers to fix a garbage disposal.
The internet is full of lies, according to the Nigerian prince I'm sending money to.
Who says life isn't fair after they win Powerball?
I'd rather learn from mistakes of others, unless blaming them is more convenient.
The term social media is like calling herpes delightful friend.
You make me feel lonely when we're together.
A gun is a two-edged sword.
Journalism is so corrupt that I’m forced to trust politicians.
Aging makes you wise and childlike, a sensible toddler holding a chainsaw.
I cut corners to save time, or maintain my low standards.
Advice always comes at the wrong time, after I’m doing the opposite.
Silence gives us space for continuous self-talk.
Addiction feels good short-term which is longer than my plan.
I’ve wronged you, and I’m open to complete forgiveness.
Media is so corrupt, Bernie Madoff is fact-checker.
Media is so corrupt, received Walter Cronkite award from anonymous source.
Media is so corrupt, good scoop refers to cat box.
Media is so corrupt, The Onion is skeptical of sources.
Hospital prices are so high, there's a credit check to buy an aspirin.
Hospital prices are so high, I became a doctor just to pay the bill.
Hospital prices are so high, paper gowns are made from the Dead Sea scrolls.
Hospital prices are so high, the billing department does proctology exams.
Housing is so expensive, a roof is the new BMW.
Housing is so expensive, your parents' basement is a dream home.
Housing is so expensive, the UN calls rent a crime against humanity.
Housing is so expensive, you sublet your glove box as storage space.
Civility is so rare, my grandma's sugar cookies are shaped like her middle finger.
Civility is so rare, even carjackers won't open your door.
Civility is so rare, M&Ms are now FUs.
Civility is so rare at hotels that the mint on my pillow looks like a horse head.
Things are so commercialized, Kellogg's Nativity scene has Snap, Crackle and Pop as the three wise men.
Things are so commercialized, your eulogy includes, now a word from our sponsor.
Things are so commercialized, JFK's eternal flame is a BBQ.
Things are so commercialized, the Sistine Chapel Ceiling is a billboard.
Things are so commercialized, there's product placement in your coffin.
Things are so hostile, riot police are called to Amish barbecues.
Things are so hostile, the Tooth Fairy pays you after he knocks your tooth out.
Things are so hostile, Nobel Peace Prizes are now by weight class.
Things are so hostile, the optometrist refers to right or left eye as good and evil.
Things are so hostile, Jerry Springer taped show at Supreme Court.
You may be in a riot if more cars are burning than candles.
You may be in a riot if you’re planting more bombs than flowers.
You may be in a riot if you only pray after an arrest.
You may be in a riot if your peace sign lacks one finger.
You may be in a riot if your peace mantra is: die pig!
I focus on the positive, how can your faults be corrected?
Patience is like insurance, have it before calamity.
Like taming a wild horse, trust comes before love.
Commercialism has gone too far if Queen of England's face tattoo is a Twizzler ad.
Stupid is hard to fix, but I keep trying.
Diets are a dime a dozen, which is cheaper than donuts.
Blaming obesity on your diet is like blaming the couch for unemployment.
They say use fear to get rich, which sounds like armed robbery.
Lockdowns are so depressing; I call the suicide hotline to save the operator.
Lockdowns are so depressing; fetal position is the new handshake.
Lockdowns make us so angry, even Trappist monks get restraining orders.
Lockdowns make us so angry, hitchhikers use the middle finger.
People are so lonely; they’ll even talk with the Peeping Tom.
Relying on social media for news is like learning quantum physics from Charlie Sheen.
Nature is also a Bible, and every law a homily.
Hell on earth is utopia put into practice.
Simplicity is like playing golf, fewer strokes show greatness.
Chess is like soccer; only great players are effective using their head.
I got beat by a six-year-old at chess, did much better at street fighting.
You win at chess the moment the spirit of your opponent breaks.
Crime rates are so high, Grandma’s cookie jar has a padlock.
Crime rates are so high, the morgue has a Black Friday sale.
Crime rates are so high, toddlers carry pepper spray.
Crime rates are so high, the Amish have MS-13 bodyguards.
Crime rates are so high, people feel saver in prison.
Emotional eating is to so intense, I make chocolate from cocoa and tears.
Emotional eating is so intense, every pound I lose feels like a little friend died.
Emotional eating is so intense, I stop for fatal traffic accidents to check my snack supply.
Emotional eating is so intense, it’s popcorn that makes me cry at movies.
Emotional eating is so intense, I sob after funerals when the buffet closes.
Love boldly, unless there's a restraining order.
It's tougher to get a refund; returning a smoke detector requires a death certificate.
The worst hate speech is censorship.
It's easier to count your blessings if there's only a few.
Our school was so tough, the police used more chalk than the teacher.
Our school was so tough, our field trip was to find the body.
Our school was so tough, the post office had our yearbook on the wall.
Our school was so tough, our typing teacher was Scarface.
Catholic school was so tough, no meat on Fridays became no teeth on Tuesday.
A game of chess is like a first date. Curiosity soon yields to desire.
Our school was so tough, after graduating we threw up our ankle bracelets.
You may be overweight if you skip a meal and lose a hundred pounds.
Does I hate people who hate people sound hypocritical?
My school was so tough, the janitor was voted most likely to succeed.
Times are so tough, my dentist sells meth to get new business.
Times are so tough, Salvation Army's in the soup line.
Times are so tough, the phone company calls me collect.
Times are so tough, the Tooth Fairy leaves his own teeth under my pillow.
Chess requires genius to become an art.
Conscience won’t let me believe a lie.
From a fragment of bone, the archeologist knows the beast. From one pang of conscience, we reconstruct our soul.
Nothing atrophies the soul more quickly than pleasure becoming its only bliss.
Other people are parts of our unconscious,
like dreams and nightmares schooling our psyche.
Tyrants hate truth because it spoils their paradise.
Chocolates are weighed, not their maker. Atoms are measured, not God.
THINGS NOT TO SAY ON A DATE
you make me feel lonely when we’re together.
does bleach take blood stains out of shaggy van carpet?
do you have a good domestic violence lawyer?
I’ve wronged you, and I’m open to complete forgiveness.
MY DOCTOR’S SUCH A QUACK
she does an autopsy before surgery.
paperwork refers to patient/corpse
her receptionist has speed dialing to mortuary.
for Halloween, she wears a doctor costume.
When media is corrupt, dictators lie with impunity.
Simplicity’s power is giving nothing up to be content.
The heart is seldom larger than the conscience.
Ai only fakes empathy, like people.
I'm writing an autobiography about narcissism.
Most dreams have one cause of death, the price.
Censorship is thought-police brutality.
Evolution is a polite way of saying you're a monkey.
If you listen closely, people aren't paying attention to you.
Generosity is not giving all you have, but what another wants.
A flower cannot withhold its fragrance, nor love her kindness.
Tyranny is measured by its punishment of truth.
Live with passion, unless you're a Peeping Tom.
If religion is violent, imagine if Stalin was Amish.
Conformity has certainty without the crucible of doubt.
People say to celebrate each success. So, I lose one pound and do binge eating.
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from Thoughts From My Heart - APHORISMS
Most try to create God in their own image.
Howls of anger drown out the death rattle of your conscience.
Hearts may sow our dreams, but discipline reaps the harvest.
Hatred is a false idol of certainty.
Worry helps fear stay relevant.
from Until What's Mortal Cannot Dance 61 Poems
Written by William Hamnet Wall
The Gallows of Spring
The rope of blossoms ‘round the neck of winter,
Becomes the gallows of a season’s foe,
Cuts short the winter’s thaw with trap-doors falling,
That hangs the winter for its crimes of snow.
The hooded figure, Spring, who pulls the rope,
Has bloody hands as wet as thawing ice.
The frigid corpse must fertilize the field
And blooming flowers from the ground entice.
Thus beauty is akin to war, and flowers
That grace a woman’s hand or fluent hair
Become the eulogy of what has died
To make their blossoms noble, rich, and fair.
June 1996
That East and West Are Wed
Wedding Song for David and Grace
Does not the sun at dawn and twilight prove
That east and west are wed,
Attired in veil of clouds and bridal skies
And sacred night their bed?
Does not the light relume the eastern realm
That faded in the west?
So too your Grace, bejeweled with morning light,
Will brighten all that’s blest.
Sun is to earth what love to marriage is:
A sacrament of soul
Where God conjoins two hallowed separate parts
To one eternal whole.
If strife besets your bliss, recall this truth:
Your love lies in east.
No twilight sorrow is so dark that dawn
Is hindered in the least.
May 2012
Retire
The flower lays down its head
As if to pray;
Its petals loosen gently
To fall away.
The leaves depart from boughs
So tranquilly,
And float to quiet graves
Beneath the tree.
The dying lion quits
Its former pride,
Without a protest, seeks
New countryside.
But man cannot retreat
From his desire,
Though every living thing
Knows to retire.
from Introduction to
The Joy of Fracking --A Haiku Guide to Loving
Earth, Freedom, and Fossil Fuels
by William Hamnet Wall
Haiku is a Japanese poetic art form consisting of three short lines.
Haiku often refer to nature’s beauty in a way that allows for an
unexpected philosophical idea to be illuminated. Even when a reference
to nature is not present, simplicity and ironic conclusion remain. The
first and third lines contain five syllables each, and the second line
has seven syllables. In this book, haiku fall into three main topics:
loving earth, loving freedom, and loving fossil fuels.
LOVING EARTH
When you hear the phrase nature's beauty, what comes to mind Stunning
sunsets? Expansive displays of spring blossoms? Tempestuous sea tides?
Perhaps a beaver’s dam on a creek, a spider’s web in a barn, or a wasp's
nest attached to a shed? The regal lion, fleet stallion, or breaching
whale? The glorious harmony of natural laws?
One thing we do not add to the list is what Shakespeare called the
"paragon of animals". A human being.
Man segregates himself from nature as if our human impact on the world
is somehow less natural than that of the rest of creation...
Sky touching earth is
Horizon. Earth touching man
Is crops, shelter, oil.
Elk on mountainside,
Grass in mouth, shot dead for food.
We pierce earth for oil.
Rich soil feeds roots.
Cities have root systems too
Called oil wells and mines.
Sunlight fuels green plants.
Animals eat this plant life.
Sunlight creates oil.
Photosynthesis
Turns sunlight to plant energy.
Fossil fuels become heat.
Sky gives rain and light.
Earth gives crops, gold, oil and gas.
Man’s toil tills this earth.
Common soil and rain,
Nature turns to lemon crop.
Man turns coal to light.
What starts as hunger,
Evokes many fields of wheat.
Oil starts as freedom.
Sweat bees drink our tears
And sweat for food. We need sweat
From frackers for oil.
What we breathe out, plants
Consume. What decays in earth,
Fuels all cities.
The tree takes from soil;
The soil takes from cloudy skies.
Man takes oil from earth.
We build a wood shed;
Wasps use it to build their nest.
The earth is that shed.
Cut roses die to
Make bouquets. What dies in ground:
Oil is earth’s bouquet.
Mugging the elderly
Cannot be called free markets.
Profits need consent.
Beware the death of
Tyrants; they leave fresh poison
In the victor’s cup.
Dead bees can sting us.
Dead tyrants have malign thoughts
That poison what lives.
Wind bends a grass blade;
Desires sway the human heart.
Oil makes dreams come true.
APHORISMS by Hamnet Wall
QUOTES by William Wall with Pictures, see HOME page.
I have only two objections to opera: the words, and music.
Self-pity is a way of being a martyr without becoming a saint.
Whoever would take your freedom to keep you safe, will take your safety
to keep their power.
People with low self-esteem ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Certainty lends a dignity to ignorance that not even truth conveys.
Democracies turn fascist when individual liberty becomes the minority
vote.
You're never a slave for being captive, only for not leaving after the door
opens.
Both mind and heart mislead us: one by the wrong direction, the other
by giving up too soon.
Justice is most devoutly loved by those not on the docket.
Monopolies abuse power because by having one choice, customers
become the commodity.
Eyes fixed on the past, castrate the will to look beyond.
Most cults have only one member.
Socialism is like a tapeworm. It starves others to stay alive.
Virtue allows pleasure and happiness to coexist.
A caged songbird transcends its captor two ways: singing or dying.
Leaders create followers, not progress. Integrity is the only progress.
Joy kills more fear than courage can.
Atheism proves that not all dogmatic zeal is religious.
I don't expect unconditional praise, but that's the only time I believe
you.
Conditions of life become your fate the moment you stop transcending
them.
Searching for God is travelling too far.
Whoever would take your freedom to keep you safe, will take your safety
to keep their power.
There are no human rights that breach the liberty of another.
Inner weakness requires external focus.
Emails are very convenient. I delete 13,000 every day.
Science and religion are both pilgrims. One seeks proof, the other
epiphany.
Silence is God's homily.
Stars we see have died long ago; so victim status sees tyranny that no
longer exists.
You cannot buy happiness because it requires giving.
In capitalism, income inequality is determined by happy customers.
People with low self-esteem ought to be ashamed of themselves.
The most durable form of slavery will use laws as chains.
American Indians hallow the spirit of an animal before eating it.
Socialists condemn fruits of another's labor before consuming them.
Alcohol is flammable so it can easily burn bridges.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul are both crimes against humanity.
Zealots burn science books too.
A family either has a father in the home or victim mentality in the child.
The zealot in power is usually more dangerous than the one burning at
the stake.
Victim mentality must kill your conscience before it awakens your rage.
Hatred is a perpetrator disguised as victim.
When religion rejects science, it's called the Dark Ages. How can the
reverse be enlightenment?
Narcissism allows us to be degenerate without the hassle of low self-
esteem.
So long as a wound is kept open, victim status appears legitimate.
APHORISMS by William Wall
Conversion is the grandest miracle of all. It's proof that in the religious community someone changed their mind.
The sooner you blame other people, the more time they have to fix your problem.
Genius is the only beauty with more suitors after it dies.
Nirvana: enlightenment through having no desires, in the West called severe depression.
The greatest hypocrisy is not pretending to be good, but feigning sin does no harm.
Narcissism is more contempt for others than love of self.
Only a narcissist can raise his self-esteem by hating himself.
Middle ages are barbarous, ignorant and spiritually regressive. So was the historical period.
Religion helps us to love our neighbors, and to ignore relatives.
Socialism perverts the focus of charity from giving to receiving, from generosity to entitlement.
Fantasies spawn in deficient will.
Dreams keep our mind sane, and fantasies make it sick.
Enlightenment is being before wanting.
The greater miracle is not that the blind can see, but those with eyes believe.
Placebos prove that faith can heal without medicine.
Like the prodigal son, science is coming home to religion after squandering its fortune on the harlots of materialism.
No one goes to heaven by confessing the sins of someone else.
Divorce is selfishness disguised as incompatibility.
Gratitude is a gift more rare than generosity.
You cannot buy happiness because it requires giving.
Based on many experiments, empirical evidence is very unreliable.
Democracy robs Peter to pay Paul to vote.
There’d be a lot more martyrs in the world if being a saint wasn’t required.
Atrocities of history will continue until power no longer corrupts.
No superstition provokes more bloodshed than this: government control over people makes them safer.
The real function of cathedrals is to dignify mysteries of God.
If God wanted organized religion, He would have picked women as disciples.
We feel more martyred by the suffering we cause than we endure.
Lilies of the field are a dream come true. Dream beautifully.
Awareness opens whatever it touches: a blossom or wound.
A flower turns sunshine into blossom. Enlightenment turns your duty into joy.
The pathology of greed is not reaping too much but sowing too little.
Socialists measure their generosity by how much they take from others.
Most suffering is caused by weakness, not injustice.
Only wisdom can expand freedom by reducing choice.
Socialism requires two types of greed: wanting more for yourself than you have earned, and wanting less for another who has earned it.
Arrogance is high self-esteem without virtue.
The demand for victim status exceeds the supply of tyranny.
Every great culture begins on its knees before God, and dies on its back as a whore.
The strongest proof for God is that vice can never make us happy.
Hearts may sow our dreams, but discipline reaps the harvest.
Fear grows where love appears absent.
You'll never be lost if not knowing delights you.
I have only two objections to opera: the words and music.
With one flower in the vase, focus blooms naturally.
What imagination discovers, it takes logic a century to prove. Logic relies on faith before evidence.
Gossip is like prostitution; it shames the buyer too.
Gossip is slander disguised as scruples.
Whoever labors is entitled to wages. Socialists pay those who won't work with another's wage.
Envy's shame is condemning what it privately admires.
I will never minimize evil, unless I'm the culprit.
It is equally charitable to receive with love than to give with it.
We should fear government because most tyranny first becomes a law.
God is the only mystery that awaits our answer.
Whoever would take your freedom to keep you safe, will take your safety to keep their power.
Shadows are no heavier than light.
People with low self-esteem ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Goals are often signposts to proven failure.
Emotions are like horses, stronger than what reins them in.
Democracies turn fascist when individual liberty becomes the minority vote.
You're never a slave for being captive, only for not leaving after the door opens.
Socialists tear down castles to build slums.
Like the prodigal son, science is coming home to religion after squandering its fortune on the harlots of materialism.
Both mind and heart mislead us: one by the wrong direction, the other by giving up too soon.
Justice is most devoutly loved by those not on the docket.
Revolution without victims is enlightenment.
Monopolies abuse power because by having one choice, customers become the commodity.
Eyes fixed on the past, castrate the will to look beyond.
Most cults have only one member.
Socialism is like a tapeworm. It starves others to stay alive.
Virtue allows pleasure and happiness to coexist.
A caged songbird transcends its captor two ways: singing or dying.
Without integrity, leaders created followers, not progress.
Joy kills more fear than courage can.
Atheism proves that not all dogmatic zeal is religious.
I don't expect unconditional praise, but that's the only time I believe you.
Conditions of life become your fate the moment you stop transcending them.
Searching for God is travelling too far.
There are no human rights that breach the liberty of another.
Inner weakness requires external focus.
Emails are very convenient until I delete 13,000 a day.
Science and religion are both pilgrims. One seeks proof, the other epiphany.
Silence is God's homily.
Stars we see have died long ago; so victim status sees tyranny that no longer exists.
You cannot buy happiness because it requires giving.
In capitalism, income inequality is determined by happy customers.
People with low self-esteem ought to be ashamed of themselves.
The most durable form of slavery will use laws as chains.
American Indians hallow the spirit of an animal before eating it. Socialists condemn fruits of another's labor before consuming them.
Alcohol is flammable so it can easily burn bridges.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul are both crimes against humanity.
Zealots burn science books too.
A family either has a father in the home or victim mentality in the child.
The zealot in power is usually more dangerous than the one burning at the stake.
Victim mentality must kill your conscience before it awakens your rage.
Hatred's intensity comes from being untethered from conscience.
Hatred is a perpetrator disguised as victim.
When religion rejects science, it's called the Dark Ages. How can the reverse be enlightenment?
So long as a wound is kept open, victim status appears legitimate.
Tyrants preach anarchy to gain power, then condemn it to retain control.
A sheep is true to itself when it follows the shepherd.
Addiction turns pleasure into despair.
The wisdom to give advice naturally repels us from those who need it.
Alimony is a marriage tax on narcissism.
Faith without truth is a cult in action.
Like lodgepole pine cones that only open after a fire, socialism needs infernal unrest to germinate.
An agnostic is an atheist whose faith is wavering.
Atheism is far more denial of God's existence, than of his existence.
We reject a simple solution when we lack character to face the problem.
Every act is dress rehearsal for who we're becoming.
If socialism worked, it wouldn't need capitalism to finance it
No one ever goes to heaven by confessing the sins of someone else.
Behavior is thoughts that we can no longer conceal.
No substance, no echo. No God, no meaning.
If our form predates our birth, then life has meaning before conception.
By defining poverty as lack of money, skills and character become irrelevant.
Science does not have saints because its errors signify progress.
Selling your soul devalues everything you bargained for.
Victimhood is mental anorexia. No proof will change its mind.
Arrogance is high self-esteem without virtue.
The unconscious is a kind doctor prescribing nightmares to purge our arrogance.
Poetry is the translation of passion into beauty.
Self-pity is a way of being a martyr without becoming a saint.
Self-pity allows being selfish to feel moral.
Lilies of the field are a dream come true. Dream beautifully.
Socialism reaps but cannot sow, cuts down a forest, but cannot plant one.
Socialists may harvest our crops in fall, but are never toiling in the spring.
Like fruit on a bough, freedom rots before it falls.
The real cause of global warming is infernal hatred of nonconformity.
Like Beauty and the Beast, love is clairvoyant not blind.
Stupidity is no destination, only stepping stones to a life of failure.
Is ignorance just sacred mysteries unsolved or just stupidity?
Feeling inferior seeks everywhere for oppressor, except in mirror.
Being a victim does not justify becoming a perpetrator.
Behavior is the alchemy of thought becoming character.
We mistake the intensity of our beliefs for their veracity.
We'll always believe the bible in your heart before the one in hand.
The sooner you blame other people, the more time they have to fix your problem.
Bitterness is the illusion that others cause our emptiness.
Entitlement is the sugar coating on the poison pill of dependency.
Some movies fail because the book is out of focus. I've never seen a poor Shakespeare film.
Television has reached a new low! It somehow has me watching complete trash.
The beauty of capitalism is the freedom it employs, not the products it creates.
More atrocities have been committed within the law than outside of it.
Most shoplifters have money in pocket. Most envy is deficient character not talent.
Small joys added together outshine raptures of single delight.
Not seeing the good will suffice to spawn bitterness.
I love honest feedback when it's unconditional praise.
Holocausts need government's blessing.
Scope of absolute power can be limited; trap a spider under glass, you've become its despot.
Healing means tears can make us happy.
Strangled conscience murmurs your name against free will.
I try not to judge others about their sleazy and demonic behavior.
Pimps offer protection to steal profits; cancel culture saves your job if you're silent.
A secret creates an intimate bond between you and all those you tell.
Hitler's other legacy is castrating Europe with socialism.
Does it take more greed to earn something or to take it?
Before the saint feeds the poor, capitalism makes the bread.
We live our dreams. Fixation on potential is emotional death.
A champion doesn't abandon others at the top; they leave him once they can't compete.
Visualize grandiose success. It's the first important step to false hope.
Hatred predates the offence; hate is a cause not an effect.
Ever noticed that successful rich people are unhappy and sloppy broke people are joyful? Me neither.
Charity is voluntary charity, pleasing to God. Socialism is involuntary charity, pleasing to tyrants
War can empower allies to become enemies.
Paranoids often need a little narcissism to believe they're a worthy target.
Love is like the sun. Nothing is lost if it shines on another.
I hate arguments because they imply I could be wrong.
Mirrors blind compassion.
Men speak in words because they are tongue-tied in symbols.
Capitalism cannot be wholly controlled by government because it survives captivity.
Cathedrals are missionaries.
Centralized power has one pattern: promise utopia, deliver tyranny.
Without conscience, even laws become depraved.
Hypocrisy must never be tolerated, unless I'm somehow involved.
Our Republic protects the minority opinion from the tyranny of democracy.
I don't believe your criticism, but your praise seems credible.
Dictators brutalize the majority; democracies transgress minority rights.
Without discipline, free-will can torment you.
Socialists must break the spirit of what they saddle. Capitalism gets permission to ride.
Delusions would not exist, if truth were palatable.
Hatred is morality without conscience.
We break God's laws, then pray for miracles.
When temper is short, grudges are long.
Capitalism creates happy customers before income inequality can happen; socialist power inequality requires force.
One mountain has a thousand echoes, gratitude a thousand charities.
Hate shrieks because conscience whispers.
Because capitalism funds charity, it is the golden goose of philanthropy.
Believing in only invisible God is also atheism.
Kissing bugs inject anesthesia before drinking your blood. Hatred numbs your conscience before revenge can spawn.
Ingratitude is spiritual twin of inadequate giving.
Socialism is power inequality pretending to cure income inequality.
Never trust fear when not in danger.
Scientific conclusions about the unknown also require faith.
A lake is moved by the smallest pebble falling. Our prayer itself is God responding.
Faith allows certainty and what's unknown to coexist.
In the long run, hard work is the easiest path.
When you focus on the problem, your solution is wrong.
Fake news is like prostitution. Most buyers are anonymous, and sellers like haughty pimps.
Real talent is like gold. It's rare because very few dig deep enough.
Blaming poverty on the rich is like blaming Shakespeare for illiteracy.
A hand closed to giving will not open in gratitude.
The best hiding place for greed is stealing from the rich.
Paranoia is clairvoyant about evil but blind to good.
Quickest way to build trust is mutual paranoia.
Income inequality fix: either make customers happier or steal from the rich.
Truth is elusive because dishonesty hides.
Self-pity inhibits praising others more than their lack of merit.
Revenge kills the conscience of the victim.
Blossoms presage the flower's death; beauty herself is a eulogy.
Charisma is being charmed by others.
Slavery's "free labor" and socialism's "free money" are both feudalism.
When joy and hope die, suicide becomes an orphan.
Faith moves the mountain when she disbelieves her eyes.
I do abstract paintings, even though they begin as portraits.
I'm not judging you, just sending you to hell.
Where no limb is, pain can still exist; so pangs are felt after conscience is buried.
Children need dreams to feel power, adults to feel hope.
Democracy is dictatorship against the minority.
Some wounds heal without scars; some victims heal without revenge.
Logic needs miracles to draw her boundaries.
Trying is enough if success isn't your goal.
Politics is elitist power disguised as equality.
If suicide is selfish, murder is flat-out inconsiderate.
Being called selfish after suicide explains why living seemed cruel.
American snobs can be broke, drunk and stupid.
Addiction as a disease makes discipline a placebo.
For every hundred Van Goghs, only one Theo lives. A great brother is more rare than genius.
History's heroic struggle is not for safety, but freedom.
If your standards are low enough, failure is impossible.
Conscience keeps you from hurting others, character from hurting yourself.
Faith may be blind, but reason follows her lead.
Einstein proved that matter and energy never die. Now, living can torment us instead of dying.
I hate distractions when I'm doing nothing.
Some movies only need two revisions: delete dialogue and images.
Only one diet always works: botulism.
Demand for victim status far exceeds the supply of tyranny.
Religion is a theory of evolution where man turns into a beast.
Jesus says to love your enemies. It makes holidays a lot easier.
Entitlement allows failing to feel like injustice.
Failure is just a second chance to blame others.
If time is money, unemployment would make you rich.
Most dreams die when you awake; real ones begin.
Hearing a lie seems more offensive than telling one.
The heart closing blinds our eyes.
Opportunity doesn't guarantee ability.
Without opportunity, ability is useless. Without ability, opportunity is useless.
Hope is like a blossom. It falls away when her fruit ripens.
Blame doesn't hide your faults, nor umbrellas the rain.
To fix others can take a lifetime, self-correction only a second.
You only hurt the one you love can't explain random violence.
When we're no longer victims, our past becomes brighter.
I hate hypocrisy; it makes me look bad.
Truth is most offensive when it disrespects my lies.
I don't have time for quick fixes.
There'd be a lot more martyrs in the world if being a saint wasn't required.
Religion helps us to deeply love our neighbors, and to isolate relatives.
Nirvana: enlightenment through having no desires, in the West called severe depression.
Even when I speak to myself, I'm a poor listener.
Don’t regret your sins. They made you who you are, a corrupt godless degenerate.
Anyone richer than I am, obviously has a greed problem.
Don’t let false hope and bad character spoil delusions of grandeur.
Path of least resistance feels like too much effort.
I need to be less self-centered. I’ll begin reflecting on myself.
Hoarders live simplicity: save what may or may not be important.
I lose my temper at the wrong time, when it’s my fault.
It’s easier to criticize others than yourself. Why swim upstream?
I’m softer on crime, if I commit it.
If you're honest about faults, people love criticism.
Hospital costs are so high that I became a doctor just to pay the bill.
Most crimes aren’t planned well. Rage and meth make you a tad spontaneous.
I have a hard time saying I’m sorry, and pretending I was wrong.
Married six times, who’s the common denominator? Matchmaker at the psyche ward.
Cancel culture is doing a good job, but so did Heinrich Himmler.
My intolerance is love. Your intolerance is hatred.
How can your hate be more tolerant than my love?
Who offers lollipops to start relationships? Bankers and pedophiles.
Marrying for money isn’t prostitution, unless her dad’s a pimp.
Because the future’s unknown, optimism is a plausible delusion.
Never judge a book by its cover, except ‘Nazi Propaganda 2.0’.
Happiness lets us down, but so does being tortured.
Going broke hurts a young marriage, especially if your husband is 105.
If I forget something twice, is that déjà vu?
If I recall, I forgot something that I remembered.
Our bodies are intensely wise about food, but stupid about plumbing.
Cause and effect feel like a design flaw.
After Darwin, evolution’s theory mutated into God is fiction.
Inside obesity is a desperate thin person struggling to gain weight.
The answer is different to unrelated questions.
Don’t let discouragement sidetrack your confusion.
If crime paid more, stealing would decline.
If ‘failure is only information’, is genocide a trend?
I want to eat healthy and be free, not like Jeffrey Dahmer in prison.
Superstition seems ridiculous, especially on full moons.
Mistakes shouldn't have consequences; it makes nature look irresponsible.
If born today, great historical figures would only be infantile.
It’s hard to turn down free money, especially during a bank robbery.
Looting is not about free booze and TVs, not about greed. It’s theft.
The secret to massive success is laser focus on blame.
Live your own truth is absurd, like make your numbers.
Reincarnation isn’t fair. Stalin doesn’t deserve to come back as a cockroach.
Hospital prices are so high that the billing department gave me a roofie.
Bad marriages help depression because hope becomes urgent.
Receiving without gratitude kills the enjoyment.
Depression makes even ignoring you no fun.
I have learned to value moderation; I use it sparingly.
Religion helps us to deeply love our neighbors, and to isolate relatives.
Politics is the elitism of corrupt over the strong, tyranny over freedom.
Truth is most offensive when it disrespects my lies.
I don’t like hypocrisy; it makes me look bad.
You only hurt the one you love can't explain random violence.
To fix others can take a lifetime, self-correction only a second.
Blame doesn’t hide your faults nor umbrellas hide the rain.
Hope is like a blossom. It falls away when her fruit ripens.
Only one diet always works: botulism.
Without opportunity, ability is useless. Without ability, opportunity is useless.
Opportunity doesn’t guarantee ability.
Hearing a lie seems more offensive than telling one.
Jesus says to love your enemies. It makes holidays a lot easier.
If time is money, unemployment would make you rich.
Most dreams die when you awake; real ones begin.
Failure is only a second chance at blaming others.
Entitlement allows failing to feel like injustice.
Conscience keeps you from hurting others, character from hurting yourself.
Einstein proved that matter and energy never die. Now, living can torment us instead of dying.
If your standards are low enough, failure is impossible.
History’s heroic struggle is not for safety, but freedom.
For every hundred Van Goghs, only one Theo lives. A great brother is more rare than genius.
Addiction as a disease makes discipline a placebo.
American snobs can be broke, drunk and stupid.
Faith may be blind, but reason follows her lead.
Capitalism prevents slavery by allowing labor to benefit the one who toils.
Being called selfish after suicide explains why living seemed cruel.
If suicide is selfish, murder is flat-out inconsiderate.
Politics is elitist power disguised as equality.
Trying is enough if success isn’t your goal.
Failure never defines you, only your lack of success.
Feelings of injustice must be deeply respected, except from victims of my crime spree.
Dating is a dangerous number's game, like playing bingo with ISIS.
Open door policy makes me nervous, during riots.
People blame technology for feeling lonely. Hold on, a stranger is texting me.
Cults can ruin your life: Kool-Aid never recovered.
If one atom can produce explosions, postal employees are underachievers.
Serving others is pure joy, unless you built pyramids as a eunuch.
Education is so expensive, it's now cheaper to be ignorant.
Some cliches are useful, like E=mc2 .
“Do as I say, not as I do." is bad advice for mimes.
Whoever says you can't buy happiness, never had a heart transplant.
Many operations aren't necessary, like ones we die from.
A philosopher said, "Whatever happens is right." Serial killers don't need the encouragement.
Only one can be offensive, hearing truth or telling lies.
"Rome wasn't built in a day.", neither was my Ikea bookcase.
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder." excludes Bob who falsely accused me of homicide.
"Love your enemies" becomes easier, after they die.
Hypocrisy has one virtue, knowing that vice is antisocial.
Dreams create hope, because facts are not involved.
If I make a thousand mistakes, it'll be a huge improvement.
Crime doesn't pay, but room and board are free.
I'll take the blame, if I can avoid responsibility.
Mugging speeds up the begging process.
Whoever defined plagiarism, should be quoted.
Prisons without locks, also have no mirrors.
Receiving praise helps us to trust strangers.
Love saves memories and never leaves home, like hoarders
The farce of life only intensifies if you ignore its humor.
The greatest safeguard of privacy is to be boring.
The past is hard to forget because it just happened.
How do we know that God can't write fiction?
In science, belief without evidence is called hypothesis.
A forged painting sells for millions. Sad, he could have been a starving artist.
I only believe half the lies I tell myself.
Never make money your goal, unless you're naked and starving.
If reality can't teach you, nightmares will.
Guilt allows you to take responsibility, and keep doing it.
It's not easy being humble, and great at same time.
Machiavelli said, "It's better to be feared than loved." Perhaps, but not on a first date.
I have to wait till I'm alone, to win most arguments.
The Golden Rule is beautiful, except in a murder-suicide.
Good reputations are lost by speaking obvious truth.
Dreams don't die because they're too big, but because you're too small.
Chimps and humans have 98% identical DNA, but opposing views on pasta.
I spend too much time arguing, especially alone.
9 DIAGRAMS
From The 9 Gifts of Capitalism--Why Prosperity Requires Freedom
by William Hamnet Wall
Gift 1 Self-Interest - Capitalism Curbs Greed
Gift 2 Attraction - The Law of Attraction Becoming Tangible
Gift 3 Profit - Profit is Spiritual
Gift 4 Opportunity - Equal Opportunity Proves the Morality of Free Markets
Gift 5 Reality - Reality is the Highest Good
Gift 6 Incentive - Capitalism Spiritualizes Incentive by Linking It to Joy
Gift 7 Communion - Free Markets Bridge Group Animosities
Gift 8 Competence - Competence Turns Joy into Gold
Gift 9 Merit - Competition Reveals Merit
