User:JarlaxleArtemis/Archive III

My name is Jeremy Hanson. I reside in Lakewood, California, and Rossmoor, California.

I created my user name from a combination of Jarlaxle and Artemis Entreri—both of whom are characters in the Forgotten Realms universe and are created by the author R.A. Salvatore. I am a huge fan of the Forgotten Realms and the legendary dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden. I am also an avid fan of the Final Fantasy and Xenosaga videogames. The television series Lost is also a favorite of mine.

I first became a Wikipedian on December 30, 2004, and have since made over eight thousand edits to the English Wikipedia.

Articles I have written:

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Articles I greatly contributed to:

My favorite quotes that I have contributed:

"Being misunderstood by someone is vexation. Being misunderstood by everyone is tragedy."—Liu Shahe

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."—Voltaire

"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."—Albert Einstein

"In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish."—Trump Donald Trump

"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."—Alfred North Whitehead

"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."—Alfred North Whitehead

"No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance."—Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Harithi al-Baghdadi al-Mufid
- The Book of Guidance into the Lives of the Twelve Imams, 1981, "The Life of the Commander of the Faithful" (I. K. A. Howard (tr.)) [2]

"Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance."—Mao Zedong
- On the Correct Handling of Contradiction, 1957. [3]

"Power is always a relative concept."—the illithid Yharaskrik
- From R.A. Salvatore's Servant of the Shard

"The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself."—Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

"The only lesson History has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from History."—Anonymous

"There are reasons for things that a casual observer might not understand."—Jarlaxle Baenre
- From R.A. Salvatore's Servant of the Shard

"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with Gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision."—Norman Mailer

"We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing."—Epicurus

"Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!"—Luigi Pirandello
- Henry IV, 1922. (Edward Storer (tr.)) [4]

Jarlaxle: "Do keep ever present in your thoughts, my friend, that an illusion can kill you if you believe in it."
Entreri: "And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not."
- From R.A. Salvatore's Servant of the Shard

Sam: It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you… that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going… because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.