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fortune quotes

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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Sank heaven for leetle curls.

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Life is like an analogy.

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Ignore previous fortune.

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Breaking seal constitutes acceptance of agreement.

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Keep on keepin’ on.

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Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve.

– Anonymous

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Kill Ugly Processor Architectures

– Karl Lehenbauer

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Tomorrow, you can be anywhere.

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Your sister swims out to meet troop ships.

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Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

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Bell Labs Unix – Reach out and grep someone.

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Toddlers are the stormtroopers of the Lord of Entropy.

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A beer delayed is a beer denied.

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Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically.

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Death rays don’t kill people, people kill people!!

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The wages of sin are unreported.

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“Money is the root of all money.”

– the moving finger

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Forty two.

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Yow! I’m imagining a surfer van filled with soy sauce!

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Join the march to save individuality!

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Entropy requires no maintenance.

– Markoff Chaney

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I am the wandering glitch – catch me if you can.

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Those who can, do; those who can’t, simulate.

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Mum’s the word.

– Miguel de Cervantes

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No running on pool deck.

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My philosophy is: Don’t think.

– Charles Manson

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There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation.

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See other side for additional listings.

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Linux is addictive, I’m hooked!

– MaDsen Wikholm’s .sig

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My mind is making ashtrays in Dayton …

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The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.

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Any given program will expand to fill available memory.

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Whip it, whip it good!

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A dwarf is passing out somewhere in Detroit!

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It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.

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There is nothing wrong with abstinence, in moderation.

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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.

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What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!

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Don’t be overly suspicious where it’s not warranted.

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You don’t move to Edina, you achieve Edina.

– Guindon

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Filmed before a live audience.

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Disposable, use only once.

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The documentation is in Japanese. Good luck.

– Rich $alz

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Buckle up!

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It’s better to burn out than it is to rust.

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For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.

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Ah, the Tsar’s bazaar’s bizarre beaux-arts!

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I own seven-eighths of all the artists in downtown Burbank!

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My idea of roughing it is when room service is late.

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alimony, n:

Having an ex you can bank on.