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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 15:40:01 UTC fortune

I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than
10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't.
-- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Apr-2018 10:40:01 UTC fortune

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be
too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which
was intended for her preservation.
-- Colton

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Mar-2018 01:10:01 UTC fortune

You can bear anything if it isn't your own fault.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2018 06:40:02 UTC fortune

"Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple
and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and
because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be
more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our
entire intellectual heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing
honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment
to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any
general understanding of science as an enterprise?
-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Skeptical Inquirer", Vol. 12, page 186

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2018 23:40:02 UTC fortune

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. ... Only
atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
-- Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, "The Pre-Adamic Creation and Evolution"

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2018 22:10:02 UTC fortune

"You are *so* lovely."
"Yes."
"Yes! And you take a compliment, too! I like that in a goddess."

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2018 14:10:01 UTC fortune

Now, it we had this sort of thing:
yield -a for yield to all traffic
yield -t for yield to trucks
yield -f for yield to people walking (yield foot)
yield -d t* for yield on days starting with t

...you'd have a lot of dead people at intersections, and traffic jams you
wouldn't believe...
-- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2018 08:10:01 UTC fortune

Witchsmeller: "You are a witch."
Edmund: "You are a quack."
Witchsmeller: "A what?"
Edmund: "Quack, QUACK".
Witchsmeller: [turning to crowd] "BEHOLD how the evil spirit
of the duck speaks through him. He is indeed a witch"
Crowd: "Burn him, burn him!"
[Black Adder, starring Rowan Atkinson as Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh,
accused of being a witch by the Witchsmeller Pursuivant]

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2018 00:10:02 UTC fortune

Difficulty

Practice no-action;
Attend to do-nothing;
Taste the flavorless,
Magnify the small,
Multiply the few,
Return love for hate.
Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy;
Deal with the great while it is yet small;
The difficult develops naturally from the easy,
And the great from the small;
So the sage, by dealing with the small,
Achieves the great.
Who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted;
Who takes things lightly finds things difficult;
The sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none.
-- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching"

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 10:10:02 UTC fortune

A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling
attributed to Mark Twain

For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped
to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer
be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained
would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2
might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with
"i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear
with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12
or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi
ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz
ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2017 16:40:02 UTC fortune

sunset, n.:
Pronounced atmospheric scattering of shorter wavelengths,
resulting in selective transmission below 650 nanometers with
progressively reducing solar elevation.

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 02:40:01 UTC fortune

If you put it off long enough, it might go away.

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 06:40:02 UTC fortune

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.
-- Larry Wall in <199702271735.JAA04048@wall.org>

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 21-Oct-2017 20:40:01 UTC fortune

You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2017 01:10:01 UTC fortune

"Now must we overlook the probability of the constant inculcation in a
belief in God on the minds of children, producing so strong and perhaps
an inherited effect on their brains not fully developed, that it would
be as difficult for them to throw off their belief in God, as for a
monkey to throw off its instinctive fear and hatred of a snake."
[Charles Darwin]

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2017 18:10:01 UTC fortune

Indecision is the true basis for flexibility.

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2017 07:10:02 UTC fortune

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2017 04:40:02 UTC fortune

"If God had wanted us to make sense,
He would have existed."

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2017 02:10:03 UTC fortune

What is a magician but a practising theorist?
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi

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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2017 20:10:02 UTC fortune

Morton's Law:
If rats are experimented upon, they will develop cancer.

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