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authortg <tg@FreeBSD.org>2002-01-07 13:47:22 +0000
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Clean up G. B. Shaw quotes:
- fix missing punctuation, - remove duplicates in fortunes2, - don't abbreviate first names. Remove duplication of Shaw's principle in fortunes2.
Diffstat (limited to 'games')
-rw-r--r--games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes14
-rw-r--r--games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes258
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 65 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
index e313fca..f0cb504 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ A fool must now and then be right by chance.
%
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- -- G. B. Shaw
+ -- George Bernard Shaw
%
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block
of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an
@@ -3148,7 +3148,7 @@ aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
%
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- -- G. B. Shaw
+ -- George Bernard Shaw
%
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you
don't think.
@@ -6097,7 +6097,7 @@ was to go away."
"I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like."
%
I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.
- -- G. B. Shaw
+ -- George Bernard Shaw
%
"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"
-- Royal Floyd Mengot (Klaus)
@@ -9229,7 +9229,7 @@ NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe? Everything he
says is wrong.
GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says
will be right.
- -- G. B. Shaw, "The Man of Destiny"
+ -- George Bernard Shaw, "The Man of Destiny"
%
Nasrudin called at a large house to collect for charity. The servant
said "My master is out." Nasrudin replied, "Tell your master that next
@@ -12501,7 +12501,7 @@ symposium to follow.
%
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach
their children to speak it.
- -- G. B. Shaw
+ -- George Bernard Shaw
%
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a
remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
@@ -13906,8 +13906,8 @@ home."
-- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society
Convention, 1977
%
-There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it
- -- G. B. Shaw
+There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
+ -- George Bernard Shaw
%
There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast
reflexes.
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
index b0e4ede..3b44837 100644
--- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
+++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2
@@ -6354,10 +6354,6 @@ A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block
of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
%
-A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
-superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- -- G.B. Shaw
-%
A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
-- D. Gries
%
@@ -14325,10 +14321,6 @@ Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder
aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper
%
-Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the
-incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- -- G.B. Shaw
-%
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who
will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter
@@ -14913,10 +14905,6 @@ Don't despise your poor relations, they may become suddenly rich one day.
Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.
-- Lt. Col. Ollie North
%
-Don't do unto others as you would they should do unto you.
-Their tastes may not be the same.
- -- G.B. Shaw
-%
Don't drink when you drive -- you might hit a bump and spill it.
%
Don't drop acid -- take it pass/fail.
@@ -18605,12 +18593,6 @@ Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
%
-Go on writing plays, my boy. One of these days a London producer will go
-into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this
-morning?" and when she says "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to
-start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.
- -- G.B. Shaw to William Douglas Home
-%
Go out and tell a lie that will make the whole family proud of you.
-- Cadmus, to Pentheus, in "The Bacchae" by Euripides
%
@@ -21729,12 +21711,6 @@ I don't wish to appear overly inquisitive, but are you still alive?
I dote on his very absence.
-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"
%
-I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on
-earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has
-succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
-goal in front and not behind.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
-%
I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan
%
@@ -27270,11 +27246,6 @@ when you know nothing about the problem.
%
It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.
%
-It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged
-to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the
-youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
-%
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start life as children.
-- Kingsley Amis
%
@@ -32200,13 +32171,6 @@ Madam, I'm Adam.
Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
-- The Mad Palindromist
%
-NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe?
- Everything he says is wrong.
-GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency,
- and then everything he says will be right.
-
- -- G.B. Shaw
-%
narcolepulacyi, n:
The contagious action of yawning, causing everyone in sight
to also yawn.
@@ -39055,10 +39019,6 @@ Shannon's Observation
share, n:
To give in, endure humiliation.
%
-Shaw's Principle:
- Build a system that even a fool can use,
- and only a fool will want to use it.
-%
She always believed in the old adage -- leave them while you're looking
good.
-- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
@@ -42236,10 +42196,6 @@ The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable
in full pursuit of the uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"
%
-The English have no respect for their language,
-and will not teach their children to speak it.
- -- G.B. Shaw
-%
The English instinctively admire any man
who has no talent and is modest about it.
-- James Agate, British film and drama critic
@@ -44828,11 +44784,6 @@ is that the experience makes you wise.
The reason why worry kills more people
than work is that more people worry than work.
%
-The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
-persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress
-depends on the unreasonable man.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
-%
The reasons that each of these countries has had to renege on its
financial committments were all somewhat different: Argentina because of
a war, Poland because of its vast misguided overinvestment in heavy
@@ -46732,9 +46683,6 @@ There is no royal road to geometry.
%
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
%
-There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
- -- G.B. Shaw
-%
There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
-- General Douglas MacArthur
%
@@ -52199,12 +52147,6 @@ When there is an old maid in the house, a watch dog is unnecessary.
When things go well, expect something to
explode, erode, collapse or just disappear.
%
-When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane,
-most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear
-that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition
-continuously until death do them part.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
-%
When users see one GUI as beautiful,
other user interfaces become ugly.
When users see some programs as winners,
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