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generators/fortune: Add quotes seen last week
Fix attributions for a few quotes.
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@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. — Thomas Sowell in A
Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of
Political Struggles
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-For the love of life, there’s a trade–off. We could loose it all – but we’ll
+For the love of life, there’s a trade–off; We could loose it all, but we’ll
go down fighting. — David Sylvian and Koji Haijima, For The Love of Life
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose
@@ -2765,7 +2765,7 @@ in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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-“Don’t be a shill.”
+Don’t be a shill.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
— Ambrose Bierce
@@ -2982,7 +2982,7 @@ Feudalism is alive and well.
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Eristic Dialectics: The Logic of Appearance.
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-Turning and turning in the widening gyre
+Turning and turning in the widening gyre;
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
@@ -3013,7 +3013,7 @@ chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries
out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this
current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously,
proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will
-also laugh afterwards. — Nikolai Gogol, The Nose
+also laugh afterwards. — Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
— Charlie Munger
@@ -3104,10 +3104,114 @@ Pay to pray.
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Distributed is the new centralized.
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-And slowly you come to realize...
+And slowly, you come to realize;
It’s all as it should be.
You can only do so much.
— David Sylvian and Koji Haijima,
For The Love of Life
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Content is not king. Context is king.
+%
+Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
+— Alamut, Vladimir Bartol
+%
+It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
+wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was
+the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of
+Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had
+everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct
+to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period
+was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities
+insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative
+degree of comparison only. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
+%
+Omniscience: A state of possessing all knowledge.
+%
+“What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.”
+%
+Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.
+%
+There are two kinds of pedestrians; the quick and the dead.
+— Lord Thomas Rober Dewar
+%
+Programming is like alchemy.
+%
+We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.
+— Winston Churchill
+%
+My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
+— Adlai E. Stevenson
+%
+Two heads are more numerous than one.
+%
+Time heals all non—fatal wounds.
+%
+Today is the first day of the rest of your week.
+%
+The early worm gets eaten by the bird.
+%
+Trust the system.
+%
+Prove that you are human.
+%
+Jump on the bandwagon!
+%
+Game the metrics.
+%
+All drugs come with side effects.
+%
+“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” — Óscar R. Benavides
+%
+In other words, we are left with Plato’s “noble natures,” with the
+few of whom it may be true that none “does evil voluntarily.” Yet the
+implied and dangerous conclusion, “Everybody wants to do good,” is not
+true even in their case. The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is
+done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or
+good. — Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
+%
+Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of
+suffering. — Aeschylus, Agamemnon
+%
+If it happens once, it’s a bug.
+If it happens twice, it’s a feature.
+If it happens more than twice, it’s a design philosophy.
+%
+Fake it till you make it?
+%
+God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we
+comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and
+mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our
+knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to
+clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we
+have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must
+we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? — Friedrich
+Nietzsche
+%
+Hanlon’s Eraser: Stupidity is criminal.
+%
+Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ.
+%
+Dynamics of Software Acceptance: Worse is better.
+%
+Authoritarianism: A form of government that rejects pluralism and uses a
+strong central power to preserve the political status quo.
+%
+Why are quotes so popular?
+%
+Everybody wants to be the leader.
+%
+Prove that you are human, human.
+%
+Not everyone is on social media.
+%
+We are aware of the issue.
+%
+Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and
+deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken
+%
+Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for
+others?’ — Martin Luther King, Jr.
+%
+OSH: Open–source hardware.
+%
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