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-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 20 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 8a02ba6..27e0392 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -15830,7 +15830,7 @@ Wit, n.: % With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. - -- Otto von Bismark + -- Otto von Bismarck % With a rubber duck, one's never alone. -- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index 6d9de5d..f6355e4 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -27009,10 +27009,6 @@ is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell. -- Ambrose Bierce % -It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life -I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - -- Bertrand Russell -% It has been said that Public Relations is the art of winning friends and getting people under the influence. -- Jeremy Tunstall @@ -35558,7 +35554,7 @@ People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible. % People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. - -- Otto Von Bismarck + -- Otto von Bismarck % People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. @@ -39544,10 +39540,6 @@ strength. For theirs is a strength born of things other than mere force. Theirs is a strength supreme... theirs is the strength -- to restore. -- Gerry Conway, "Thor", #193 % -So far as I can remember, there is not one -word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. - -- Bertrand Russell -% So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist. @@ -51193,14 +51185,6 @@ big thumping lie that will then be believed. -- Ministry of Information, memo on the maintenance of British civilian morale, 1939 % -What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, -which is the exact opposite. - -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928 -% -What is wanted is not the will-to-believe, -but the wish to find out, which is exact opposite. - -- Bertrand Russell -% What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. % What kind of sordid business are you on now? I mean, man, whither @@ -52470,7 +52454,7 @@ and everything will fall into place. % When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. - -- Otto Von Bismarck + -- Otto von Bismarck % When you speak to others for their own good it's advice; when they speak to you for your own good it's interference. |