Fortune List
API endpoint: Fortune
GET /api/fortune/?format=api&page=27
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Constants aren't.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2317 }, { "body": "Velilind's Laws of Experimentation: 1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2318 }, { "body": "Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2319 }, { "body": "Vests are to suits as seat-belts are to cars.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2320 }, { "body": "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ― Salvor Hardin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2321 }, { "body": "Vique's Law: A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2322 }, { "body": "Virtue is its own punishment.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2323 }, { "body": "Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2324 }, { "body": "Vitamin C deficiency is apauling", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2325 }, { "body": "VMS isn't an operating system, it's a playpen for DEC system programmers. ― Herb Blashtfalt", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2315 }, { "body": "Volcano - a mountain with hiccups.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2326 }, { "body": "Vote anarchist.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2327 }, { "body": "Wagner's music is better than it sounds. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2758 }, { "body": "Walter, I love you, but sooner or later, you're going to have to face the fact you're a goddamn moron. ― The Dude (\"The Big Lebowski\")", "qode": "Walter, I q1e_VBP you, but sooner or later, you 're going to have to face the fact you 're a goddamn moron. ― The Dude(\" The Big Lebowski\")", "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2328 }, { "body": "War is menstruation envy.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2329 }, { "body": "Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers―and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception. ― Chris Hedges, \"Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle\"", "qode": "Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers―and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the q1s_JJ stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception. ― Chris Hedges,\" Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle\"", "q1": [ { "name": "cup", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup", "e": "convex", "r": "concave", "o": "rim", "s": "hollow", "quadranym_id": 7 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2798 }, { "body": "Waste not, get your budget cut next year.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2330 }, { "body": "Wasting time is an important part of living.", "qode": "Wasting q1n_NN is an important q2s_NN of living.", "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": "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": "NS", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2331 }, { "body": "Watch out for off-by-one errors.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2332 }, { "body": "Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. This seems as value-free an utterance as human beings ever make. But what do we do when someone doubts the truth of this proposition? Ok, all we can do is appeal to scientific values. The value of understanding the world. The value of evidence. The value of logical consistency. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water. Ok, what can we say to such a person? Ok, all we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. Ok, if someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic? ― Sam Harris, during a Notre Dame debate with William Lane Craig", "qode": "Water is two q3s^NNS hydrogen and one q3s_NN oxygen. This seems as value- free an utterance as human beings ever make. But what do we do when someone doubts the q4n_NN of this proposition? Ok, all we can do is appeal to scientific values. The value of understanding the world. The value of q2n_NN. The value of logical consistency. What if someone says, “ Well, that ’s not how I choose to q1r_VB about water. Ok, what can we say to such a person? Ok, all we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he does n’t share those values, the conversation is over. Ok, if someone does n’t value q2n_NN, what q2n_NN are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone does n’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic? ― Sam Harris, during a Notre Dame debate with William Lane Craig", "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 }, { "name": "truth", "user": "dane", "src": "Whitehead", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth", "e": "adventure", "r": "art", "o": "beauty", "s": "peace", "quadranym_id": 33 }, { "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": "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": "SSNNRNN", "depth": 4, "fortune_id": 2709 }, { "body": "We all know that no one understands anything that isn't funny.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2334 }, { "body": "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ― Oscar Wilde", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2335 }, { "body": "We ARE as gods and might as well get good at it. ― Whole Earth Catalog", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2333 }, { "body": "We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. ― Walt Kelly, \"Pogo\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2336 }, { "body": "We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. ― Dwight D. Eisenhower", "qode": "We are going to have q1o_NN even if we have to fight for it. ― Dwight D. Eisenhower", "q1": [ { "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 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2337 }, { "body": "We are not alone.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2338 }, { "body": "We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. ― Leonard Cohen", "qode": "We are so lightly here. It is in q1e_NN that we are made. In q1e_NN we disappear. ― Leonard Cohen", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "soulmate", "user": "kemp", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulmate", "e": "love", "r": "lust", "o": "body", "s": "mind", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 74 } ], "subs": "EE", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2875 }, { "body": "We are what we pretend to be. ― Kurt Vonnegut, JR", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2339 }, { "body": "Wear me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave; it blazes up like blazing fire, fiercer than any flame. [Song of Solomon 8:6 (NEB)]", "qode": "Wear me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for q1e_NN is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave; it blazes up like blazing fire, fiercer than any flame.[ Song of Solomon 8:6( NEB)]", "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": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2365 }, { "body": "We call our dog Egypt, because in every room he leaves a pyramid.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2340 }, { "body": "We can defeat gravity. The problem is the paperwork involved.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2341 }, { "body": "We can't let children think it's okay to dress up like Vikings and go around hollering. ― Dogbert, on opera", "qode": "We ca n't let children q1r_VB it 's okay to dress up like Vikings and go around hollering. ― Dogbert, on opera", "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": 2342 }, { "body": "We can't schedule an orgy, it might be construed as fighting ― Stanley Sutton", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2343 }, { "body": "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ― Albert Einstein", "qode": "We ca n't solve problems by using the q1s_JJ kind of q2r_NN we used when we created them. ― Albert Einstein", "q1": [ { "name": "recognition", "user": "scotty", "likes": 1, "voters": [ "scotty" ], "e": "novel", "r": "familiar", "o": "different", "s": "same", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 105 }, { "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": "SR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2818 }, { "body": "We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.", "qode": "We cheat the q1o_JJ guy and pass the savings on to you.", "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": 2344 }, { "body": "\"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 87 }, { "body": "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2345 }, { "body": "\"We don't have to protect the environment ― the Second Coming is at hand.\" ― James Watt", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 88 }, { "body": "We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish. ― John Culkin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2346 }, { "body": "We don't want to discourage the innovators and those who take risks because they're afraid of getting sued by a lawsuit. ― George W. Bush; Washington, D.C.; June 24, 2004", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2347 }, { "body": "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. ― King Henry V, \"Henry V\", Act IV, Scene 3", "qode": "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to- day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a- bed Shall q1r_VB themselves accursed they were not here, And q2s_VB their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin 's day. ― King Henry V,\" Henry V\", Act IV, Scene 3", "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 }, { "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": "RS", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2348 }, { "body": "We have met the enemy and he is us ― Walt Kelly (in POGO)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2349 }, { "body": "\"We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.\" ― Lily Tomlin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 89 }, { "body": "We have the best government that money can buy. ― Mark Twain", "qode": "We have the q1e_JJS government that money can buy. ― Mark Twain", "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": 2781 }, { "body": "Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2366 }, { "body": "Weinberg's First Law: Progress is made on alternate Fridays.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2367 }, { "body": "Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2368 }, { "body": "Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends!", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2369 }, { "body": "Welcome to the human race, with its wars, disease and brutality. ― Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders), \"Show Me\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2370 }, { "body": "Welcome to The Machine.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2371 }, { "body": "Welcome to the working week. I know it don't thrill you I hope it don't kill you.", "qode": "Welcome to the working week. I know it do n't thrill you I q1o_VBP it do n't kill you.", "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": 2372 }, { "body": "We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.", "qode": "We q1n_VBP from history that we do not q1n_VB anything from history.", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "learner", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "known", "s": "knower", "quadranym_id": 14 } ], "subs": "NN", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2350 }, { "body": "We like to think we spend most of our time power-typing. \"I'm being productive, I'm writing programs!\" But, we don't. We spend most of our time looking into the abyss, saying, \"My God, what have I done?\" ― Douglas Crockford, during his keynote at YUIConf 2011", "qode": "We like to q3r_VB we q1r_VBP most of our q2n_NN power- typing.\" I' m q4s_VBG productive, I' m writing programs!\" But, we do n't. We q1r_VBP most of our q2n_NN looking into the abyss, saying,\" My God, what have I done?\" ― Douglas Crockford, during his keynote at YUIConf 2011", "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 }, { "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": [ { "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": "RRNSRN", "depth": 4, "fortune_id": 2696 }, { "body": "We'll be a great country where the fabrics are made up of groups and loving centers. ― George W. Bush, Kalamazoo, Michigan; March 27, 2001", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2360 }, { "body": "\"We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later.\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 90 }, { "body": "\"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what CAN you believe?!\" ― Bullwinkle J. Moose [Jay Ward]", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 91 }, { "body": "Well, I killed my own grandfather and here I am! Guess there's no paradox when time travel isn't involved. ― Andrew Kennedy", "qode": "Well, I killed my own grandfather and here I am! Guess there 's no paradox when q1n_NN travel is n't involved. ― Andrew Kennedy", "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": 2373 }, { "body": "\"Well, vegans, as you know, don't have eggs, meat, dairy, or senses of humor.\" — Peter Sagal, on NPR's \"Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me\" (21 Sep, 2013)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2880 }, { "body": "Well, well, well! Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou! ― Alex in \"Clockwork Orange\"", "qode": "Well, well, well! Well if it is n't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How q1r_NN thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou! ― Alex in\" Clockwork Orange\"", "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": 2374 }, { "body": "Well, you see, it's such a transitional creature. It's a piss-poor reptile and not very much of a bird. ― Melvin Konner, from \"The Tangled Wing\", quoting a zoologist who has studied the archeopteryx and found it \"very much like people\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2375 }, { "body": "We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgement.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2351 }, { "body": "We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately. ― Benjamin Franklin", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2352 }, { "body": "We must remember the First Amendment which protects any shrill jackass no matter how self-seeking. ― F. G. Withington", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2354 }, { "body": "We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2355 }, { "body": "We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did. ― Rufus T. Firefly, in \"Duck Soup\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2361 }, { "body": "We're here to give you a computer, not a religion. ― attributed to Bob Pariseau, at the introduction of the Amiga", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2362 }, { "body": "Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. ― Anonymous", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2376 }, { "body": "We're the weirdest monkeys ever. ― Karl Lehenbauer", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2363 }, { "body": "Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2377 }, { "body": "Wethern's Law: Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2378 }, { "body": "We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and \"success\", defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. ― Chris Hedges, \"Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle\"", "qode": "We ’ ve bought into the idea that education is about training and\" success\", defined monetarily, rather than learning to q1r_VB critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay q2o_IN morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or q3s_NN to consume, condemns itself to death. ― Chris Hedges,\" Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle\"", "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": "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": "ROS", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 2796 }, { "body": "We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it. ― Andy Rooney", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2364 }, { "body": "We want to create puppets that pull their own strings. ― Ann Marion", "qode": "We want to q2n_VB puppets that q1r_VBP their own strings. ― Ann Marion", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 }, { "name": "motor performance", "user": "scotty", "src": "Chen/Bargh", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_skill", "e": "push", "r": "pull", "o": "negative", "s": "positive", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 112 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "NR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2356 }, { "body": "We were spanking each other with meat and then suddenly it got weird. ― Joe Hacket", "qode": "We were spanking each q1o_JJ with meat and then suddenly it got weird. ― Joe Hacket", "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": 2357 }, { "body": "We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem ― how to run a sunbeam through a meter.", "qode": "We will have solar q1o_NN as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem ― how to run a sunbeam through a meter.", "q1": [ { "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": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2358 }, { "body": "We work to become, not to acquire. ― Elbert Hubbard", "qode": "We q1o_VBP to become, not to acquire. ― Elbert Hubbard", "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": 2359 }, { "body": "What are you doing wrong with our bug-free product?", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2380 }, { "body": "What a waste it is to lose one's mind ― or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. ― V.P. Dan Quayle, garbling the United Negro College Fund slogan in an address to the group (from Newsweek, May 22nd, 1989)", "qode": "What a waste it is to lose one 's q1s_NN ― or not to have a q1s_NN at all. How true that is. ― V.P. 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A stick! ― Bill Kirchenbaum, comedian", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2382 }, { "body": "Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ― Collis P. Huntingdon", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2411 }, { "body": "What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2384 }, { "body": "What happens when you cut back the jungle? It recedes.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2385 }, { "body": "What is a magician but a practising theorist? ― Obi-Wan Kenobi", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2386 }, { "body": "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? 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When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated. ― Sam Harris", "qode": "What is so unnerving about the candidacy of Sarah Palin is the degree to which she represents — and her supporters celebrate — the joyful marriage of confidence and ignorance ... Ask yourself: how has\" elitism\" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no q3o_JJ walk of q1n_NN in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their q1n^NNS to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes q2n_NN to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down- to- earth — in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she does n't seem too intelligent or well educated. ― Sam Harris", "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": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 }, { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "ONNN", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 2706 }, { "body": "What is the difference between the modern computer and a Turing machine? 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We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly ― that is the first law of nature. ― Voltaire", "qode": "What is tolerance? ― it is the q2s_NN of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other 's folly ― that is the first q1s_NN of nature. ― Voltaire", "q1": [ { "name": "kingdom", "user": "scotty", "e": "rule", "r": "be empowered by", "o": "compliance", "s": "law", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 71 }, { "name": "temptation", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temptation", "e": "lead", "r": "trespass", "o": "pleasure", "s": "consequence", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 72 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "SS", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 2389 }, { "body": "What is vice today may be virtue tomorrow.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2390 }, { "body": "What is virtue today may be vice tomorrow.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2391 }, { "body": "What is worth doing is worth delegating.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2392 }, { "body": "What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2393 }, { "body": "What makes the Universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.", "qode": "What makes the Universe so hard to comprehend is that there 's q1r_NN to compare it with.", "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": 2394 } ] }