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fortune quotes

Published 2021-01-04

Naïm has a nice gitconfig alias that they use for all their dotfiles repo commits:

[alias]
    cf = !git commit -m \"$(fortune -sn 60)\"

Sometimes nice stuff comes out, sometimes not so nice stuff comes out. This page will be a random 50 fortune quotes (called with the same args) each time the site is generated:

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Santa Claus is watching!

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Crazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!

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A stitch in time saves nine.

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Pushing 30 is exercise enough.

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Life is a sexually transmitted disease with 100% mortality.

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To be loved is very demoralizing.

– Katharine Hepburn

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Good night, Austin, Texas, wherever you are!

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Another megabytes the dust.

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You will never know hunger.

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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

– J. K. Galbraith

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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

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There is no proverb that is not true.

– Cervantes

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Visit beautiful Vergas, Minnesota.

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Do not think by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

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Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.

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Unix soit qui mal y pense

[Unix to him who evil thinks?]

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The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf.

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And that’s the way it is…

– Walter Cronkite

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If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing for money.

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You’ll be sorry…

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Consultant, n.:

An ordinary man a long way from home.

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Be security conscious – National defense is at stake.

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Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.

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The world wants to be deceived.

– Sebastian Brant

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Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week.

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So much food; so little time!

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I think we’re all Bozos on this bus.

– Firesign Theatre

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So much food; so little time!

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Do students of Zen Buddhism do Om-work?

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news: gotcha

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What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!

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The bogosity meter just pegged.

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Baby On Board.

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Orders subject to approval.

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Disk crisis, please clean up!

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QOTD:

My mother was the travel agent for guilt trips.

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Wow! Look!! A stray meatball!! Let’s interview it!

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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

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One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.

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Schshschshchsch.

– The Gorn, “Arena”, stardate 3046.2

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Justice, n.:

A decision in your favor.

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List each check separately by bank number.

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Zippy’s brain cells are straining to bridge synapses …

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You will pioneer the first Martian colony.

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No guts, no glory.

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A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him.

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What’s so funny?

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1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.

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Because the wine remembers.

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We are the people our parents warned us about.