Fortune List
API endpoint: Fortune
GET /api/fortune/?format=api&page=22
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Bush, Washington, D.C.; October 28, 2003", "qode": "The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the―the vast majority of Iraqis want to q1e_VB in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice. ― George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.; October 28, 2003", "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": 1935 }, { "body": "The American business executive resembles the Ferengi more each day. In another 20 years, there will be dorm rooms full of toothless hillbillies at the Amazon fulfillment centers and the Walmarts. ― Rich Simons", "qode": "The American business executive resembles the Ferengi more each day. 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Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. ― Tom Lehrer", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2714 }, { "body": "The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1938 }, { "body": "The attention span of a computer is as long as its electrical cord.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1939 }, { "body": "The author should gaze at Noah, and ... learn, as they did in the Ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very small compass. ― Sydney, Smith, Edinburgh Review", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1940 }, { "body": "The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.", "qode": "The average woman would rather have q1o_NN than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.", "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": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1941 }, { "body": "The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon. ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when q2e_NN used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball ... 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"fortune_id": 1942 }, { "body": "The best prophet of the future is the past.", "qode": "The q2e_JJS prophet of the q1e_NN is the q1r_NN.", "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": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "EER", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1943 }, { "body": "The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. ― Clarence Darrow", "qode": "The q2e_JJS that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the q1s_JJ speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom. ― Clarence Darrow", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 }, { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "ES", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1944 }, { "body": "The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. ― Anonymous", "qode": "The q1e_JJS thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. ― Anonymous", "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": 1945 }, { "body": "The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.", "qode": "The q1e_JJS thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.", "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": 1946 }, { "body": "The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrong-doer. ― Marcus Aurelius, \"The Meditations\", Book VI", "qode": "The q1e_JJS way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrong- doer. ― Marcus Aurelius,\" The Meditations\", Book VI", "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": 2621 }, { "body": "The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ― Anonymous", "qode": "The q1e_JJS way to break a bad habit is to drop it. ― Anonymous", "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": 1947 }, { "body": "The better part of maturity is knowing your goals. ― Arnold Glasow", "qode": "The better q1s_NN of maturity is knowing your goals. ― Arnold Glasow", "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": 1948 }, { "body": "The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. ― Merrick Furst", "qode": "The biggest difference q1o_IN q2n_NN and q1n_NN is that you ca n't reuse q2n_NN. ― Merrick Furst", "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": [ { "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 } ], "subs": "ONNN", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1949 }, { "body": "The bland leadeth the bland and they both shall fall into the kitsch.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 68 }, { "body": "... The book is worth attention for only two reasons: (1) it attacks attempts to expose sham paranormal studies; and (2) it is very well and plausibly written and so rather harder to dismiss or refute by simple jeering. ― Harry Eagar, reviewing \"Beyond the Quantum\" by Michael Talbot, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, ppg. 200-201", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 116 }, { "body": "The Book says BURN and DESTROY repent and redeem and revenge and deploy and rumble thee forth to the land of the unbelieving scum 'cause they don't go for what's in the Book and that makes 'em BAD. ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2675 }, { "body": "The brain is a beautifully engineered get-out-of-the-way machine that constantly scans the environment for things out of whose way it should right now get. That's what brains did for several hundred million years ― and then, just a few million years ago, the mammalian brain learned a new trick: to predict the timing and location of dangers before they actually happened. Our ability to duck that which is not yet coming is one of the brain's most stunning innovations, and we wouldn't have dental floss or 401(k) plans without it. But this innovation is in the early stages of development. The application that allows us to respond to visible baseballs is ancient and reliable, but the add-on utility that allows us to respond to threats that loom in an unseen future is still in beta testing. ― Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University, in an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times; 6 July, 2006", "qode": "The brain is a beautifully engineered get- out- of- the- way machine that constantly scans the environment for things out of whose way it should right now get. That 's what brains did for several hundred million years ― and then, just a few million years ago, the mammalian brain learned a new trick: to predict the timing and location of dangers before they actually happened. Our q2s_NN to duck that which is not yet coming is one of the brain 's most stunning innovations, and we would n't have dental floss or 401(k) plans without it. But this innovation is in the early stages of development. The application that allows us to respond to visible baseballs is ancient and reliable, but the add- on utility that allows us to respond to threats that loom in an unseen q1e_NN is still in beta testing. ― Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University, in an op- ed piece in the Los Angeles Times; 6 July, 2006", "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": "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": "SE", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 70 }, { "body": "The Briggs/Chase Law of Program Development: To determine how long it will take to write and debug a program, take your best estimate, multiply that by two, add one, and convert to the next higher units.", "qode": "The Briggs/ Chase Law of Program Development: To determine how long it will take to write and debug a program, take your q2e_JJS estimate, q1e_VB that by two, add one, and convert to the next higher units.", "q1": [ { "name": "aggregate", "user": "dane", "e": "multiply", "r": "divide", "o": "total", "s": "constituent", "quadranym_id": 1 }, { "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": 1917 }, { "body": "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. ― H. L. Mencken", "qode": "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any q1o_JJ animal. ― H. L. Mencken", "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": 2587 }, { "body": "The chain that can be yanked is not the cosmic chain. ― Cal Keegan", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1950 }, { "body": "The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to show up at the steam fitters' picnic.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1951 }, { "body": "The chief barrier to happiness is envy. ― Frank Tyger", "qode": "The chief q1n_NN to happiness is envy. ― Frank Tyger", "q1": [ { "name": "barrier", "user": "scotty", "e": "wall", "r": "door", "o": "section", "s": "blocking", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 63 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1952 }, { "body": "The chief cause of problems is solutions. ― Eric Sevareid, CBS Evening News, December 29, 1970", "qode": "The chief q1e_NN of problems is solutions. ― Eric Sevareid, CBS Evening News, December 29, 1970", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1953 }, { "body": "The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. ― H.L. Mencken, \"The Aesthetic Recoil,\" American Mercury, July, 1931.", "qode": "The chief contribution of Protestantism to human q1e_NN is its massive proof that God is a bore. ― H.L. Mencken,\" The Aesthetic Recoil,\" American Mercury, July, 1931.", "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2588 }, { "body": "The city of the dead antedates the city of the living. ― Lewis Mumford", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1954 }, { "body": "The clothes have no emperor. ― C. A. Hoare, about Ada.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1955 }, { "body": "The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away its essence. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.", "qode": "The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that q1e_VBP away its complexity often q1e_VBP away its essence. ― Fred Brooks, Jr.", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "concept", "user": "scotty", "src": "Barsalou", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept", "e": "abstract", "r": "concrete", "o": "situational", "s": "introspective", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 47 } ], "subs": "EE", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1956 }, { "body": "The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2676 }, { "body": "The computing field is always in need of new cliches. ― Alan Perlis", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1957 }, { "body": "The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous. ― Bjarne Stroustrup in \"The C++ Programming Language\"", "qode": "The connection q1o_IN the language in which we think/ program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at q2e_JJS dangerous. ― Bjarne Stroustrup in\" The C++ Programming Language\"", "q1": [ { "name": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 }, { "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": "OE", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1958 }, { "body": "The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: \"Of course it is none of my business, but ―\" is to place a period after the word \"but.\" Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about. ― Lazarus Long, \"Time Enough for Love\"", "qode": "The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts:\" Of course it is none of my business, but ―\" is to place a period after the word\" but.\" Do n't use excessive q2e_NN in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary q1o_NN and is bound to get you talked about. ― Lazarus Long,\" Time Enough for Love\"", "q1": [ { "name": "temptation", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temptation", "e": "lead", "r": "trespass", "o": "pleasure", "s": "consequence", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 72 }, { "name": "dystopian control", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia", "e": "force", "r": "enslave", "o": "imperialism", "s": "oppression", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 86 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "EO", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1959 }, { "body": "The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1960 }, { "body": "The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1961 }, { "body": "The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. ― Franklin Delano Roosevelt", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1962 }, { "body": "The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat. ― John McNulty", "qode": "The cow is q1r_NN but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat. ― John McNulty", "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": 1963 }, { "body": "\"The C Programming Language: A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 66 }, { "body": "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ― Dorothy Parker", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2890 }, { "body": "The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one ― like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1965 }, { "body": "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated Reformer of human errors. ― Thomas Jefferson", "qode": "The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may q3o_VB that the dawn of reason and q1s_NN of q2e_NN in these United States will do away with this artificial scaffolding and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this most venerated Reformer of human errors. ― Thomas Jefferson", "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": "Golden Rule", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule", "e": "treat others", "r": "want to be treated", "o": "peace", "s": "freedom", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 73 }, { "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": "OSE", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 1964 }, { "body": "The debate rages on: Is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1966 }, { "body": "The decision didn't have to be logical, it was unanimous.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1967 }, { "body": "The devil finds work for idle circuits to do.", "qode": "The devil finds q1o_NN for idle circuits to do.", "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": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1968 }, { "body": "\"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity? If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, it would be a calamity.\" ― Benjamin Disraeli", "qode": "\" The difference q1o_IN a misfortune and a calamity? If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, it would be a calamity.\" ― Benjamin Disraeli", "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": 69 }, { "body": "The difference between Genius and Stupidity is that Genius has limits.", "qode": "The difference q1o_IN Genius and Stupidity is that Genius has limits.", "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": 1969 }, { "body": "The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. ― Robert Heinlein", "qode": "The difference q1o_IN science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those q2o_JJ subjects merely require scholarship. ― Robert Heinlein", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 }, { "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": "OO", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1970 }, { "body": "The difference between sympathy and empathy is three letters: \"yes\". ― P. Taylor", "qode": "The difference q2o_IN q1s_NN and empathy is three letters:\" yes\". ― P. Taylor", "q1": [ { "name": "humanity", "user": "dane", "e": "love", "r": "hate", "o": "apathy", "s": "sympathy", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 109 }, { "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": "OS", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1971 }, { "body": "The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity. ― John Adams", "qode": "The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and q1s_JJ carloads of q2o_JJ foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity. ― John Adams", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 }, { "name": "pattern", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern", "e": "linear", "r": "circular", "o": "separate", "s": "whole", "quadranym_id": 19 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "SO", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 1972 }, { "body": "\"The Dude abides.\" I don't know about you but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' 'er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure hope he makes the finals. ― The Stranger (\"The Big Lebowski\")", "qode": "\" The Dude abides.\" I do n't know about you but I take comfort in that. It 's good knowin' he 's out there. The Dude. Takin'' er easy for all us sinners. Shoosh. I sure q1o_VBP he makes the finals. ― The Stranger(\" The Big Lebowski\")", "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": 2795 }, { "body": "The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1973 }, { "body": "\"... the educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers.\" ― Theodore Schick Jr., in The_Skeptical_Inquirer, March/April, 1997", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1 }, { "body": "The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. ― Buckminster Fuller", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1974 }, { "body": "The end of labor is to gain leisure.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1975 }, { "body": "The end of the world will occur at 3:00 p.m., this Friday, with symposium to follow.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1976 }, { "body": "The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. ― G. B. Shaw", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1918 }, { "body": "The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. ― Horace", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1977 }, { "body": "The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, \"All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.\" ― Frank Zappa", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2677 }, { "body": "The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal. ― Charles Galton Darwin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1978 }, { "body": "The existence of god implies a violation of causality.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1979 }, { "body": "The fact that it works is immaterial. ― L. Ogborn", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1980 }, { "body": "The famous politician was trying to save both his faces.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1981 }, { "body": "The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of space and time. ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "qode": "The fancy is indeed no q3o_JJ than a mode of memory emancipated from the q1r_NN of q2n_NN and time. ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "q1": [ { "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": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 }, { "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": "ORN", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 1982 }, { "body": "... the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost would never throw the Devil out of Heaven as long as they still need him as a fourth for bridge. ― Letter in NEW LIBERTARIAN NOTES #19", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 120 }, { "body": "The fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems. ― Roger Levian", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1983 }, { "body": "The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1919 }, { "body": "The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1984 }, { "body": "The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of a project takes 90% of the time.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1985 }, { "body": "The first and great commandment is: Do not let them scare you. ― Elmer Davis", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1986 }, { "body": "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ― Abbie Hoffman", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1987 }, { "body": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself―and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that. ― R. P. Feynman, \"Cargo Cult Science\"", "qode": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself―and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you 've not fooled yourself, it 's easy not to fool q1o_JJ scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that. ― R. P. Feynman,\" Cargo Cult Science\"", "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": 117 }, { "body": "The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. ― Paul Erlich", "qode": "The first q1e_NN of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. ― Paul Erlich", "q1": [ { "name": "kingdom", "user": "scotty", "e": "rule", "r": "be empowered by", "o": "compliance", "s": "law", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 71 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1988 }, { "body": "The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. ― Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1989 }, { "body": "The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization. ― Alan Coult", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1990 }, { "body": "The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1991 }, { "body": "The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some. ― Dwight MacDonald", "qode": "The[ Ford Foundation] is a large q1o_NN of money completely surrounded by people who want some. ― Dwight MacDonald", "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": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1933 }, { "body": "The fountain code has been tightened slightly so you can no longer dip objects into a fountain or drink from one while you are floating in mid-air due to levitation. Teleporting to hell via a teleportation trap will no longer occur if the character does not have fire resistance. ― README file from the NetHack game", "qode": "The fountain code has been tightened slightly so you can no longer dip objects into a fountain or drink from one while you are floating in mid- air due to levitation. Teleporting to q1n_NNP via a teleportation trap will no longer occur if the character does not have fire resistance. ― README file from the NetHack game", "q1": [ { "name": "hell", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell", "e": "hurt", "r": "damn", "o": "fallen", "s": "eternal", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 42 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1992 }, { "body": "The fourth law of thermodynamics: The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum.", "qode": "The fourth q1s_NN of thermodynamics: The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum.", "q1": [ { "name": "kingdom", "user": "scotty", "e": "rule", "r": "be empowered by", "o": "compliance", "s": "law", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 71 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1993 }, { "body": "The fundamentalists, by \"knowing\" the answers before they start [examining evolution], and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science―-or of any honest intellectual inquiry. ― Stephen Jay Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus (1990)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1994 }, { "body": "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. ― Albert Einstein", "qode": "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the q1s_NN to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after q2r_JJ knowledge. ― Albert Einstein", "q1": [ { "name": "cognition", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition", "e": "intuition", "r": "rational", "o": "physical", "s": "psychological", "quadranym_id": 3 }, { "name": "passage", "user": "scotty", "e": "hall", "r": "door", "o": "clear", "s": "path", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 64 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "SR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2822 }, { "body": "The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.)", "qode": "The q1e_NN is n't what it used to be.( It never was.)", "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1995 }, { "body": "The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.", "qode": "The generation of q1s_JJ numbers is too important to be left to chance.", "q1": [ { "name": "operator", "user": "dane", "src": "Marvin Minsky", "e": "potential", "r": "actual", "o": "connected", "s": "random", "quadranym_id": 18 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1996 }, { "body": "The gentlemen looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1997 }, { "body": "The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1998 }, { "body": "The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 1999 }, { "body": "The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. ― George Washington (The Treaty of Tripoli)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2000 }, { "body": "The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man―that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense―has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. ― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices, 1919.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2589 }, { "body": "The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.", "qode": "The greatest of faults is to be q1n_JJ of none.", "q1": [ { "name": "conscious", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness", "e": "anticipate", "r": "memorize", "o": "perspective", "s": "introspective", "realm": "Spatial", "quadranym_id": 4 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2001 }, { "body": "The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace. ― Holly Near", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2002 }, { "body": "The hand that rocks the cradle can also cradle a rock. ― Feminist saying, circa 1968-1972", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2003 }, { "body": "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ― Albert Einstein", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2823 }, { "body": "The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. ― Leo Burnett", "qode": "The hardest thing to q1n_VB is a q2o_JJ mind. ― Leo Burnett", "q1": [ { "name": "close", "user": "scotty", "e": "reach", "r": "push", "o": "closed", "s": "push action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 62 }, { "name": "open", "user": "scotty", "e": "reach", "r": "pull", "o": "opened", "s": "pull action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 61 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "NO", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2004 }, { "body": "The heart has no rainbows when the eye has no tears.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2005 }, { "body": "The hell with the Prime Directive: let's kill something.", "qode": "The q1n_NN with the Prime Directive: let 's kill something.", "q1": [ { "name": "hell", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell", "e": "hurt", "r": "damn", "o": "fallen", "s": "eternal", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 42 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2006 }, { "body": "The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look like independent thinkers.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2007 } ] }