Fortune List
API endpoint: Fortune
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Fewer still get to do the choosing.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1502 }, { "body": "Many are called, few volunteer.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1503 }, { "body": "Many are cold, but few are frozen.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1504 }, { "body": "Many are the wonders of the Universe, and none so wonderful as Mankind! ― Sophocles", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1505 }, { "body": "Many changes of mind and mood; do not hesitate too long.", "qode": "Many changes of q1s_NN and mood; do not hesitate too long.", "q1": [ { "name": "soulmate", "user": "kemp", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulmate", "e": "love", "r": "lust", "o": "body", "s": "mind", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 74 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1506 }, { "body": "Many grains of frankincense on the same altar: one falls before, another falls after; but it makes no difference. ― Marcus Aurelius, \"The Meditations\", Book IV", "qode": "Many grains of frankincense on the q1s_JJ altar: one falls before, another falls after; but it makes no difference. ― Marcus Aurelius,\" The Meditations\", Book IV", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2610 }, { "body": "Many pages make a thick book.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1507 }, { "body": "Many receive advice, few profit from it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1508 }, { "body": "Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday ... ― Walt Kelly", "qode": "Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he was so Sad q1r_VBG about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday ... ― Walt Kelly", "q1": [ { "name": "personality", "user": "dane", "src": "Carl Jung", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "feeling", "r": "thinking", "o": "sensual", "s": "intuitive", "quadranym_id": 21 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1509 }, { "body": "Mark's Dental-Chair Discovery: Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1510 }, { "body": "Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. ― Voltaire", "qode": "Marriage is the only q2e_NN q1n_JJ to the cowardly. ― Voltaire", "q1": [ { "name": "open", "user": "scotty", "e": "reach", "r": "pull", "o": "opened", "s": "pull action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 61 }, { "name": "truth", "user": "dane", "src": "Whitehead", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth", "e": "adventure", "r": "art", "o": "beauty", "s": "peace", "quadranym_id": 33 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "EN", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1511 }, { "body": "Marshall's generalized iceberg theorem: 7/8ths of everything cannot be seen.", "qode": "Marshall 's generalized iceberg theorem: 7/8ths of q1e_NN can not be seen.", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian zeal", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "everything", "r": "nothing", "o": "hope", "s": "despair", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 131 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1512 }, { "body": "Martin's Law of Communication: The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communication between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.", "qode": "Martin 's Law of q1s^NN: The inevitable result of improved and enlarged q1s_NN q3o_IN q2o_JJ levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding.", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 }, { "name": "physical control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_pest_control", "e": "command", "r": "order", "o": "directive", "s": "communication", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 84 }, { "name": "space", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space", "e": "infinite", "r": "finite", "o": "between", "s": "void", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 28 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "SSOO", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 1513 }, { "body": "Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2772 }, { "body": "'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability. ― George Bernard Shaw", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 106 }, { "body": "\"Mate, this parrot wouldn't VOOM if you put four million volts through it!\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 55 }, { "body": "Matter cannot be created or destroyed, nor can it be returned without a receipt.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1514 }, { "body": "Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. ― Jules Feiffer", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1515 }, { "body": "Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology. ― R. S. Barton", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1516 }, { "body": "McGowan's Madison Avenue Axiom: If an item is advertised as \"under $50\", you can bet it's not $19.95.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1517 }, { "body": "Meader's Law: Whatever happens to you, it will previously have happened to everyone you know, only more so.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1518 }, { "body": "Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1519 }, { "body": "Mediocrity thrives on standardization. ― Wayne Dyer", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1520 }, { "body": "Meditation is not what you think.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1521 }, { "body": "Meeting, n.: An assembly of people coming together to decide what person or department not represented in the room must solve a problem.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1522 }, { "body": "Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. ― Dave Barry", "qode": "Meetings are an addictive, highly self- indulgent activity that corporations and q1o_JJ large organizations habitually engage in only because they can not actually masturbate. ― Dave Barry", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2805 }, { "body": "Memories of you remind me of you. ― Karl", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1523 }, { "body": "Memory should be the starting point of the present.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1524 }, { "body": "Mencken and Nathan's Fifteenth Law of The Average American: The worst actress in the company is always the manager's wife.", "qode": "Mencken and Nathan 's Fifteenth Law of The Average American: The q1r_JJS actress in the company is always the manager 's wife.", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1527 }, { "body": "Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American: All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1528 }, { "body": "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier. ― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1949.", "qode": "Men have a much better q1n_NN of it than women. For one thing, they marry later. For another thing, they die earlier. ― H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1949.", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2577 }, { "body": "Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.", "qode": "Men q1e_VBP to wonder, and that is the q2r_NN of science.", "q1": [ { "name": "egg_reproduction", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_reproduction", "e": "prolifeferate", "r": "seed", "o": "nurture", "s": "birth", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 122 }, { "name": "soulmate", "user": "kemp", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulmate", "e": "love", "r": "lust", "o": "body", "s": "mind", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 74 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "ER", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1525 }, { "body": "Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit... ― Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 377 B.C.), The Sacred Disease", "qode": "Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the q1s_JJ thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent- mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit ... ― Hippocrates( c. 460-c. 377 B.C.), The Sacred Disease", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1526 }, { "body": "Men's natures are alike. It is their habits that carry them far apart. ― Confucius", "qode": "Men 's natures are alike. It is their habits that carry them q1e_RB apart. ― Confucius", "q1": [ { "name": "distance", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance", "e": "far", "r": "near", "o": "relation", "s": "position", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 9 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2693 }, { "body": "Menu: A list of dishes which the restaurant has just run out of.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1529 }, { "body": "Men were real men, women were real women, and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. Spirits were brave, men boldly split infinitives that no man had split before. Thus was the Empire forged. ― \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\", Douglas Adams", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2722 }, { "body": "Meskimen's Law: There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over.", "qode": "Meskimen 's Law: There 's never q1n_NN to do it right, but there 's always q1n_NN to do it over.", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "subs": "NN", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1530 }, { "body": "Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1531 }, { "body": "\"Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles.\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 56 }, { "body": "Miksch's Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1532 }, { "body": "Mile's Law: where you stand depends on where you sit.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1533 }, { "body": "Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. ― Groucho Marx", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1534 }, { "body": "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. ― Groucho Marx", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1535 }, { "body": "Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ― Susan Ertz", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1536 }, { "body": "Millions of sensible people are too high-minded to concede that politics is almost always the choice of the lesser evil. \"Tweedledum and Tweedledee,\" they say, \"I will not vote.\" Having abstained, they are presented with a President who appoints the people who are going to rummage around in their lives for the next four years. Consider all the people who sat home in a stew in 1968 rather than vote for Hubert Humphrey. They showed Humphrey. Those people who taught Hubert Humphrey a lesson will still be enjoying the Nixon Supreme Court when Tricia and Julie begin to find silver threads among the gold and the black. ― Russel Baker, \"Ford without Flummery\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1537 }, { "body": "Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. ― Jean Cocteau", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1538 }, { "body": "Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1539 }, { "body": "Miss Wormwood: What state do you live in? Calvin: Denial. Miss Wormwood: I don't suppose I can argue with that...", "qode": "Miss Wormwood: What state do you q1e_VB in? Calvin: Denial. Miss Wormwood: I do n't suppose I can argue with that ...", "q1": [ { "name": "heaven", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven", "e": "live", "r": "bless", "o": "holiness", "s": "penance", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 70 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1540 }, { "body": "Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1541 }, { "body": "Mister Ranger isn't gonna like it, Yogi.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1542 }, { "body": "Mitchell's Law of Committees: Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings are held to discuss it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1543 }, { "body": "Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity. ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2668 }, { "body": "Modern man is the missing link between the apes and humans.", "qode": "Modern man is the missing link q1o_IN the apes and humans.", "q1": [ { "name": "space", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space", "e": "infinite", "r": "finite", "o": "between", "s": "void", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 28 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1544 }, { "body": "Modesty is an ornament, but you go further without it. ― German Proverb", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1545 }, { "body": "Modesty is of no use to a beggar. ― Homer", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1546 }, { "body": "Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis: If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1547 }, { "body": "Money doesn't stretch―if somebody makes a killing, somebody else loses his shirt. ― Rich Simons", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2632 }, { "body": "Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't use the other five without it.", "qode": "Money is like a sixth sense, and you ca n't use the q1o_JJ five without it.", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1548 }, { "body": "Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. ― Thomas Jefferson", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1549 }, { "body": "Morality is one thing. Ratings are everything. ― A Network 23 executive on \"Max Headroom\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1550 }, { "body": "More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. ― Woody Allen", "qode": "More than any q2n_NN in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One q1s_NN leads to q6s_NN and utter hopelessness, the q4o_JJ to q3o_VB extinction. Let us pray that we have the q5o_NN to choose correctly. ― Woody Allen", "q1": [ { "name": "aggregate", "user": "dane", "e": "multiply", "r": "divide", "o": "total", "s": "constituent", "quadranym_id": 1 }, { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 }, { "name": "passage", "user": "scotty", "e": "hall", "r": "door", "o": "clear", "s": "path", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 64 }, { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 }, { "name": "Dickensian zeal", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "everything", "r": "nothing", "o": "hope", "s": "despair", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 131 }, { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "NSSOOO", "depth": 6, "fortune_id": 1551 }, { "body": "Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1552 }, { "body": "Mosher's Law of Software Engineering: Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.", "qode": "Mosher 's Law of Software Engineering: Do n't worry if it does n't q1o_VB right. If q2e_NN did, you 'd be out of a job.", "q1": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 }, { "name": "Dickensian zeal", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "everything", "r": "nothing", "o": "hope", "s": "despair", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 131 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "OE", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1553 }, { "body": "Most legislators are so dumb that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1554 }, { "body": "Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. ― Larry Wall", "qode": "Most of you are q1r_JJ with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. ― Larry Wall", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1555 }, { "body": "Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2667 }, { "body": "Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for the people who can't read. ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2669 }, { "body": "Mother told me to be good, but she's been wrong before.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1556 }, { "body": "Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1557 }, { "body": "Mr. Ranger isn't gonna like it, Yogi.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1558 }, { "body": "Mrs Podgorny: Angus how are y'going to get 48,000,000 kilts into the van? Angus: I'll have t'do it in two goes.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1559 }, { "body": "Muddy water let stand will clear. ― Chinese Proverb", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1560 }, { "body": "Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.", "qode": "Murphy 's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it q1s_NN does n't work.", "q1": [ { "name": "precipitation", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precipitation", "e": "snow", "r": "sleet", "o": "hail", "s": "rain", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 38 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1561 }, { "body": "Murphy's Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1562 }, { "body": "My answer is, bring them on. ― George W. Bush, on Iraqi militants attacking U.S. forces; Washington, D.C.; July 3, 2003", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1563 }, { "body": "My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "My q2e_JJS advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as q1e_RB away from a church as you can. ― Frank Zappa", "q1": [ { "name": "distance", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance", "e": "far", "r": "near", "o": "relation", "s": "position", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 9 }, { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "EE", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2670 }, { "body": "My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big satellite photo of the entire earth on it. On the back it said: \"Wish you were here\". ― Steven Wright", "qode": "My brother sent me a postcard the q1o_JJ day with this big satellite photo of the entire earth on it. On the back it said:\" Wish you were here\". ― Steven Wright", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2852 }, { "body": "My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2751 }, { "body": "My grandson has learned how to hold and carry the cat. He has also learned how to flush the toilet. I can't help but believe that in the not-too-distant future there will be another lesson in store for him. ― Dave Henry", "qode": "My grandson has learned how to q2s_VB and carry the cat. He has also learned how to flush the toilet. I ca n't help but believe that in the not- too- distant q1e_NN there will be another lesson in store for him. ― Dave Henry", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 }, { "name": "container", "user": "scotty", "src": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container", "e": "full", "r": "empty", "o": "content", "s": "hold", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 5 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "SE", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1564 }, { "body": "My guess is that well over eighty per cent of the human race goes through life without ever having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before, and by thousands. A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic. ― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956", "qode": "My guess is that well over eighty per cent of the human race goes through q2n_NN without ever having a single original q1e_NN. That is to say, they never q3r_VBP anything that has not been q1e_VBN before, and by thousands. A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original q1e_NN would probably be unendurable. The pressure of ideas would simply drive it frantic. ― H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956", "q1": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 }, { "name": "simplicity", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity", "e": "live", "r": "think", "o": "details", "s": "generalities", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 108 } ], "q2": [ { "name": "love", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "http://heartcorps.com/journeys/essaylov.htm", "e": "thought", "r": "knowledge", "o": "desire", "s": "ability", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 52 } ], "subs": "NEREE", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 2578 }, { "body": "My head is bloodied, but unbowed. ― From the poem \"Invictus\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1565 }, { "body": "My life is so fucking miserable that I don't know whether I was born or if Morrissey just sang me into existence. ― R.K. Milholland", "qode": "My q1n_NN is so fucking miserable that I do n't know whether I was born or if Morrissey just sang me into existence. ― R.K. Milholland", "q1": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1566 }, { "body": "My mother is a fish. ― William Faulkner", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1567 }, { "body": "My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1568 }, { "body": "My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable.... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent to what we do; it has no feeling, no design, no interest in whether or not we grapple with it. But we cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand, slow march of intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities. ― James A. Michener", "qode": "My own q1n_NN has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly vulnerable .... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent to what we do; it has no feeling, no design, no interest in whether or not we grapple with it. But we can not be indifferent to space, because the grand, slow march of intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities. ― James A. Michener", "q1": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1569 }, { "body": "My past is my own. ― The Shadow (DC Comics)", "qode": "My q1r_NN is my own. ― The Shadow( DC Comics)", "q1": [ { "name": "time", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://buildintuit.com/", "e": "future", "r": "past", "o": "event", "s": "present", "realm": "Temporal", "quadranym_id": 31 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1570 }, { "body": "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ― Albert Einstein", "qode": "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior q2e_NN who reveals himself in the slight q1o_NNS we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble q2r_NN. ― Albert Einstein", "q1": [ { "name": "transcendence", "user": "dane", "src": "Traditional!?", "e": "spirit", "r": "mind", "o": "body", "s": "soul", "quadranym_id": 32 }, { "name": "simplicity", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity", "e": "live", "r": "think", "o": "details", "s": "generalities", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 108 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "EOR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2820 }, { "body": "Naeser's Law: You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1571 }, { "body": "Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature, because it is a product what we can find in our neighborhoods. ― George W. Bush, Austin, Texas; December 20, 2000", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1572 }, { "body": "Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious selection. We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be. Within one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves unrecognizably. ― Greg Bear", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1573 }, { "body": "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ― Abraham Lincoln", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1574 }, { "body": "Necessity is a mother.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1575 }, { "body": "Neil Armstrong to Walter Cronkite: \"Well, Walter, I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.\"", "qode": "Neil Armstrong to Walter Cronkite:\" Well, Walter, I believe that the Good Lord gave us a q1r_JJ number of heartbeats and I 'm damned if I 'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.\"", "q1": [ { "name": "space", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space", "e": "infinite", "r": "finite", "o": "between", "s": "void", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 28 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1576 }, { "body": "Neil Armstrong tripped.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1577 }, { "body": "Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.", "qode": "Never be led astray onto the q1s_NN of virtue.", "q1": [ { "name": "passage", "user": "scotty", "e": "hall", "r": "door", "o": "clear", "s": "path", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 64 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1578 }, { "body": "Never call a man a fool; borrow from him.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1579 }, { "body": "Never count your chickens before they rip your lips off.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1580 }, { "body": "Never count your chickens until they rip your lips off.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1588 }, { "body": "Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ― Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in \"Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist\" (1949)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2821 } ] }