Fortune List
API endpoint: Fortune
GET /api/fortune/?format=api&page=21
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Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not in Nature.\" ― Samuel Johnson", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 61 }, { "body": "Short words are best, and the old words when short are best of all. ― Winston Churchill", "qode": "Short q1r_NNS are q2e_JJS, and the old q1r_NNS when short are q2e_JJS of all. ― Winston Churchill", "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": [ { "name": "grounding", "user": "scotty", "src": "Deb Roy", "e": "sensing", "r": "words", "o": "speech", "s": "motor action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 54 } ], "subs": "RERE", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1841 }, { "body": "Show business is just like high school, except you get paid. ― Martin Mull", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1842 }, { "body": "Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1843 }, { "body": "Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1844 }, { "body": "[Silvio Berlusconi] is so thoroughly corrupt, every time he smiles, an angel gets gonorrhea. ― Dylan Moran", "qode": "[ Silvio Berlusconi] is so thoroughly corrupt, every q1n_NN he smiles, an angel gets gonorrhea. ― Dylan Moran", "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": 2787 }, { "body": "Simon's Law: Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1845 }, { "body": "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1846 }, { "body": "Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone. ― H. L. Mencken", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2585 }, { "body": "...skill such as yours is evidence of a misspent youth. ― Herbert Spencer", "qode": "... skill such as yours is q1n_NN of a misspent youth. ― Herbert Spencer", "q1": [ { "name": "evidence", "user": "scotty", "src": "Seech", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence", "e": "analogical", "r": "statistical", "o": "testimonial", "s": "anecdotal", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 48 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 127 }, { "body": "Skinner's Constant (or Flannagan's Finagling Factor): That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten.", "qode": "Skinner 's Constant( or Flannagan 's Finagling Factor): That q1o_NN which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten.", "q1": [ { "name": "resources", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource", "e": "active", "r": "passive", "o": "quantity", "s": "quality", "quadranym_id": 25 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1847 }, { "body": "Slime is the agony of water. ― Jean-Paul Sartre", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1848 }, { "body": "Small keyboards make for big mistakes. ― Joe Gunn", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2868 }, { "body": "Socialism is power, power, and more power. ― Oswald Spengler, Hitler's intellectual forebear", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1853 }, { "body": "Society is the presumption of habit over instinct. ― Peter Taylor", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1854 }, { "body": "Sodd's Second Law: Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.", "qode": "Sodd 's Second Law: Sooner or later, the q1r_JJS possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.", "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": 1855 }, { "body": "So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ― Bertrand Russell", "qode": "So q1e_RB as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ― Bertrand Russell", "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": 1849 }, { "body": "Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other human construct because no two parts are alike. If they are, we make the two similar parts into a subroutine ― open or closed. In this respect, software systems differ profoundly from computers, buildings, or automobiles, where repeated elements abound. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.", "qode": "Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any q4o_JJ human construct because no two parts are alike. If they are, we make the two q3r_JJ parts into a subroutine ― q1n_JJ or q2r^VBD. In this respect, software systems differ profoundly from computers, buildings, or automobiles, where repeated elements abound. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.", "q1": [ { "name": "open", "user": "scotty", "e": "reach", "r": "pull", "o": "opened", "s": "pull action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 61 }, { "name": "model", "user": "dane", "e": "different", "r": "similar", "o": "structure", "s": "concept", "quadranym_id": 15 }, { "name": "door", "user": "dane", "src": "Dane", "area": "AI", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door", "e": "open", "r": "close", "o": "barrier", "s": "passage", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 10 }, { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "ORNR", "depth": 4, "fortune_id": 1856 }, { "body": "Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'.... Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover. ― Bill Gates, President, Microsoft, Inc.", "qode": "Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more' user- friendly' .... Their q1e_JJS approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words,' user- friendly' on the cover. ― Bill Gates, President, Microsoft, Inc.", "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1857 }, { "body": "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. ― Oscar Wilde", "qode": "Some q1e_NN happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. ― Oscar Wilde", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1858 }, { "body": "Some grow with responsibility, others just swell. ― Arnold Glasow", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1859 }, { "body": "Some men are discovered; others are found out.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1860 }, { "body": "Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. ― Joseph Heller, \"Catch-22\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1861 }, { "body": "Some people fall for everything and stand for nothing.", "qode": "Some people fall for q1e_NN and stand for q1r_NN.", "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": "ER", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1862 }, { "body": "Some people hold their noses when used as toilet paper by the shadowy overlords; some people inhale the heady aroma with gusto. ― Rich Simons", "qode": "Some people q1s_VBP their noses when used as toilet paper by the shadowy overlords; some people inhale the heady aroma with gusto. ― Rich Simons", "q1": [ { "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": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2635 }, { "body": "Some people hope to achieve immortality through their works or their children. I would prefer to achieve it by not dying. ― Woody Allen", "qode": "Some people q1o_VBP to achieve immortality through their works or their children. I would prefer to achieve it by not dying. ― Woody Allen", "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": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1863 }, { "body": "Some people in this department wouldn't recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.", "qode": "Some people in this department would n't q1n_VB subtlety if it hit them on the head.", "q1": [ { "name": "recognize", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recall_(memory)", "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "quadranym_id": 24 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1864 }, { "body": "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it ― Gordon R. Dickson", "qode": "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the q1e_NN instead of using it ― Gordon R. Dickson", "q1": [ { "name": "barrier", "user": "scotty", "e": "wall", "r": "door", "o": "section", "s": "blocking", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 63 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1865 }, { "body": "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. ― Sigmund Freud", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1868 }, { "body": "Sometimes, a grand adventure begins when you lick the evil. —Joe Pizzirusso", "qode": "Sometimes, a grand q1e_NN begins when you lick the evil. —Joe Pizzirusso", "q1": [ { "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2895 }, { "body": "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ― Katherine Hepburn", "qode": "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should q1e_VB next q2r_NN and just visit now and then. ― Katherine Hepburn", "q1": [ { "name": "barrier", "user": "scotty", "e": "wall", "r": "door", "o": "section", "s": "blocking", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 63 }, { "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": "ER", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1866 }, { "body": "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ― Lily Tomlin", "qode": "Sometimes I worry about q1s_VBG a success in a mediocre world. ― Lily Tomlin", "q1": [ { "name": "experience", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience", "e": "occurring", "r": "reoccurring", "o": "presence", "s": "being", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 13 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1867 }, { "body": "Sometimes the only solution is to find a new problem.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1869 }, { "body": "Sometimes the only way out of a difficulty is through it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1870 }, { "body": "Sometimes, too long is too long. ― Joe Crowe", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1871 }, { "body": "So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us. ― Jean-Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth-century Jesuit priest", "qode": "So we follow our wandering paths, and the very q1r_NN acts as our guide and our doubts serve to reassure us. ― Jean- Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth- century Jesuit priest", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian times", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "light", "r": "darkness", "o": "belief", "s": "incredulity", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 130 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1850 }, { "body": "So where the sheer incompetence of politicians and generals used to start wars, the sheer incompetence of us computer people has now put an end to it. No mean feat. For centuries humanity has been looking for the Weapon That Would End War Forever. We have found it. War has ended, not with the bang of a bomb, but with the gentle whisper of crashing software. ― Gerard Stafleu (gerard@uwovax.uwo.ca)", "qode": "So where the sheer incompetence of politicians and generals used to start wars, the sheer incompetence of us computer people has now put an end to it. No mean feat. For centuries q1n_NN has been looking for the Weapon That Would End War Forever. We have found it. War has ended, not with the bang of a bomb, but with the gentle whisper of crashing software. ― Gerard Stafleu( gerard@uwovax.uwo.ca)", "q1": [ { "name": "humanity", "user": "dane", "e": "love", "r": "hate", "o": "apathy", "s": "sympathy", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 109 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1851 }, { "body": "So why don't you make like a tree, and get outta here. ― Biff in \"Back to the Future\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1852 }, { "body": "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. ― \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"", "qode": "Space is big. You just wo n't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may q1r_VB it 's a long way down the road to the chemist 's, but that 's just peanuts to space. ―\" The Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy\"", "q1": [ { "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": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2723 }, { "body": "Spark's Sixth Rule for Managers: If a subordinate asks you a pertinent question, look at him as if he had lost his senses. When he looks down, paraphrase the question back at him.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1872 }, { "body": "Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/I, I am sure that only Real Men could have written such a machine-hogging, cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free the middle third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string times a bit string and assign the result to a float decimal? Go ahead! Free a controlled variable procedure parameter and reallocate it before passing it back? Overlay three different types of variable on the same memory location? Anything you say! Write a recursive macro? Well, no, but Real Men use rescan. How could a language so obviously designed and written by Real Men not be intended for Real Man use?", "qode": "Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/ I, I am sure that only Real Men could have written such a machine- hogging, cycle- grabbing, all- encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free the middle third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string times a bit string and assign the result to a float decimal? Go ahead! Free a controlled variable procedure parameter and reallocate it before passing it back? Overlay three q1o_JJ types of variable on the q1s_JJ memory location? Anything you say! Write a recursive macro? Well, no, but Real Men use rescan. How could a language so obviously designed and written by Real Men not be intended for Real Man use?", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "subs": "OS", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1874 }, { "body": "Speak softly and carry a +6 two-handed sword.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1873 }, { "body": "Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. ― Eleanor Roosevelt", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1875 }, { "body": "Sponges grow in the ocean. That kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be, if that didn't happen. ― Steven Wright", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2857 }, { "body": "Stability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion.", "qode": "Stability itself is q1r_NN else than a more sluggish motion.", "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": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1876 }, { "body": "Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old. ― Pink Floyd", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1877 }, { "body": "\"Stealing a rhinoceros should not be attempted lightly.\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 62 }, { "body": "Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1878 }, { "body": "Stock brokers invest your money until it's all gone. ― Woody Allen", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1879 }, { "body": "Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you. Now, if it'd only take a bath.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1880 }, { "body": "Stult's Report: Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is fight the solutions.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1881 }, { "body": "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1882 }, { "body": "Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.", "qode": "Sturgeon 's Law: Ninety percent of q1e_NN is crap.", "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": 1883 }, { "body": "Styling mousse, which is gunk that looks like shaving cream ... was invented by a French hair professional whom, if you met him, you would want to punch directly in the mouth. ― Dave Barry", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2806 }, { "body": "Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue. ― Seneca", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1888 }, { "body": "Success is a journey, not a destination.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1884 }, { "body": "Success is not free. Neither is failure. ― Ray Kroc", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1885 }, { "body": "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ― Winston Churchill", "qode": "Success is the q1s_NN to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ― Winston Churchill", "q1": [ { "name": "love", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "http://heartcorps.com/journeys/essaylov.htm", "e": "thought", "r": "knowledge", "o": "desire", "s": "ability", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 52 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1886 }, { "body": "Success is what happens when something goes right. ― Arnold Glasow", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1887 }, { "body": "Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1889 }, { "body": "Superiority is always detested. ― Balasar Gracian", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1890 }, { "body": "Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites? ― H. L. Mencken, \"Prejudices, Fourth Series\" (1924)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2586 }, { "body": "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2775 }, { "body": "\"Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.\" ― Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 63 }, { "body": "Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. ― Richard M. Nixon", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1891 }, { "body": "Swipple's Rule of Order: He who shouts the loudest has the floor.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1892 }, { "body": "Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.", "qode": "Tact is the q3s_NN to tell a man he has an q1n_JJ q2s_NN when he has a q1o_NN in his head.", "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 }, { "name": "love", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "http://heartcorps.com/journeys/essaylov.htm", "e": "thought", "r": "knowledge", "o": "desire", "s": "ability", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 52 } ], "q2": [ { "name": "open", "user": "scotty", "e": "continuation", "r": "space", "o": "hole", "s": "accessible", "quadranym_id": 17 } ], "subs": "SNSO", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 1894 }, { "body": "Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.", "qode": "Tact is the q1r_NN of making a point without making an enemy.", "q1": [ { "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": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1895 }, { "body": "Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.", "qode": "Tact is the great q2s_NN to see q3o_JJ people as they q1r_VBP you see them.", "q1": [ { "name": "love", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "http://heartcorps.com/journeys/essaylov.htm", "e": "thought", "r": "knowledge", "o": "desire", "s": "ability", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 52 }, { "name": "simplicity", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity", "e": "live", "r": "think", "o": "details", "s": "generalities", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 108 }, { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "SOR", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 1896 }, { "body": "Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking.", "qode": "Tact, n.: The unsaid q1s_NN of what you 're thinking.", "q1": [ { "name": "structure", "user": "dane", "src": "Build Intuit", "area": "Nymology", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure", "e": "complete", "r": "separate", "o": "interdependent", "s": "dependent", "pos": "NN", "epos": "VB", "rpos": "VB", "opos": "NN", "spos": "NN", "realm": "Perceptual", "quadranym_id": 29 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1897 }, { "body": "Take away your opinion, and you then take away the complaint, \"I have been harmed.\" Take away the complaint, \"I have been harmed,\" and the harm is taken away. ― Marcus Aurelius, \"The Meditations\", Book IV", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2609 }, { "body": "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1898 }, { "body": "Take everything in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way.", "qode": "Take q1e_NN in stride. Trample anyone who gets in your way.", "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": 1899 }, { "body": "Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese. ― National Lampoon, \"Deteriorada\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1900 }, { "body": "Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. ― Kipling", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1901 }, { "body": "Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins? ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2673 }, { "body": "Take what you can use and let the rest go by. ― Ken Kesey", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1902 }, { "body": "Tax reform means \"Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree.\" ― Russell Long", "qode": "q1r^NN reform means\" Do n't q1r_VB you, do n't q1r_VB me, q1r_NN that fellow behind the tree.\" ― Russell Long", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "economic control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomic_regulation_and_control", "e": "regulate", "r": "tax", "o": "stability", "s": "ownership", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 89 } ], "subs": "RRRR", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1903 }, { "body": "Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1904 }, { "body": "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ― Aldous Huxley", "qode": "Technological q1r_NN has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ― Aldous Huxley", "q1": [ { "name": "utopian control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia", "e": "advance", "r": "progress", "o": "Earths survival", "s": "fraternity", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 103 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1905 }, { "body": "Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you.... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1906 }, { "body": "Telling a child that everyone dies is the hardest thing about being a party clown. — James Ferace", "qode": "Telling a child that everyone dies is the hardest thing about q1s_VBG a party clown. — James Ferace", "q1": [ { "name": "experience", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience", "e": "occurring", "r": "reoccurring", "o": "presence", "s": "being", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 13 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2899 }, { "body": "Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing. ― R. Geis", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1907 }, { "body": "Tequila isn't even a drink. It's just a way of getting the police round, without using the phone. ― Dylan Moran", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2789 }, { "body": "\"Text processing has made it possible to right-justify any idea, even one which cannot be justified on any other grounds.\" ― J. Finnegan, USC.", "qode": "\" Text processing has made it possible to right- justify any idea, even one which can not be justified on any q1o_JJ grounds.\" ― J. Finnegan, USC.", "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": 64 }, { "body": "Than self restraint, there is nothing better. ― Lao Tzu", "qode": "Than self restraint, there is q1r_NN better. ― Lao Tzu", "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": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1908 }, { "body": "That 150 lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. ― Thomas Jefferson, on the U.S. Congress.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1909 }, { "body": "That government is best which governs least. ― Thomas Jefferson", "qode": "That government is q1e_JJS which governs least. ― Thomas Jefferson", "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1910 }, { "body": "That government is best which governs not at all. ― Henry David Thoreau", "qode": "That government is q1e_JJS which governs not at all. ― Henry David Thoreau", "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1911 }, { "body": "\"That hardly ever happens\" is another way of saying, \"It happens\". ― Douglas Crockford, during his keynote at YUIConf 2011", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2697 }, { "body": "That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended ― civilizations are built up ― excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down. ― C. S. Lewis", "qode": "That is the key to history. Terrific q1o_NN is expended ― civilizations are built up ― excellent institutions devised; but each q2n_NN something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down. ― C. S. Lewis", "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": "light", "user": "Greggo", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light", "e": "shine", "r": "brighten", "o": "energy", "s": "vision", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 80 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "ON", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1912 }, { "body": "That [life] which is longest of duration, and that which is shortest, both come to one effect. ― Marcus Aurelius, \"The Meditations\", Book II", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2604 }, { "body": "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. ― Thoreau", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1913 }, { "body": "\"That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 65 }, { "body": "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. ― Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in \"Oath of Fealty\"", "qode": "That 's the thing about people who q2r_VBP they q1r_VBP computers. What they really q1r_VBP is lousy programmers. ― Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in\" Oath of Fealty\"", "q1": [ { "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": "humanity", "user": "dane", "e": "love", "r": "hate", "o": "apathy", "s": "sympathy", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 109 } ], "subs": "RRR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1915 }, { "body": "That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ― Madeleine L'Engle", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2728 }, { "body": "That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1914 }, { "body": "That woman speaks eight languages and can't say \"no\" in any of them. ― Dorothy Parker", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2885 }, { "body": "That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. ― Dorothy Parker", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2889 }, { "body": "The Abrams' Principle: The shortest distance between two points is off the wall.", "qode": "The Abrams' Principle: The shortest q2n_NN q1o_IN two points is off the wall.", "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": "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": "NO", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1916 } ] }