Fortune List
API endpoint: Fortune
GET /api/fortune/?format=api&page=8
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Buckminster Fuller", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 729 }, { "body": "\"Every time I think I know where it's at, they move it.\"", "qode": "\" Every q2n_NN I q1r_VBP I know where it 's at, they move it.\"", "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": "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": "NR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 23 }, { "body": "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. ― Beckett", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 723 }, { "body": "Evolution does not require the nonexistence of God, it merely allows for it. That alone is enough to evoke condemnation from those who fear the nonexistence of God more than they fear God Himself. ― Keith Doyle, in talk.origins", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 732 }, { "body": "Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. ... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory. ― Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, \"The Pre-Adamic Creation and Evolution\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 731 }, { "body": "Evolution is both fact and theory. Creationism is neither. ― Anonymous", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 733 }, { "body": "Exactitude in small matters is the essence of discipline.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 734 }, { "body": "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.", "qode": "Example is the school of mankind, and they will q1n_VB at no other.", "q1": [ { "name": "learner", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "known", "s": "knower", "quadranym_id": 14 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 735 }, { "body": "Excellent day to have a rotten day.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 736 }, { "body": "Excellent time to become a missing person.", "qode": "Excellent q1n_NN to become a missing person.", "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": 737 }, { "body": "Excessive login or logout messages are a sure sign of senility.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 739 }, { "body": "Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. ― W. Somerset Maugham", "qode": "Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening q1r_NN of a habit. ― W. Somerset Maugham", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 738 }, { "body": "Excuse me while I change into something more formidable.", "qode": "Excuse me while I q1o_VBP into something more formidable.", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 740 }, { "body": "Executive ability is prominent in your make-up.", "qode": "Executive q1s_NN is prominent in your make- up.", "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": 741 }, { "body": "Expense Accounts, n.: Corporate food stamps.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 742 }, { "body": "Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. ― Poor Richard's Almanac", "qode": "Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will q1n_VB at no other. ― Poor Richard 's Almanac", "q1": [ { "name": "learner", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "known", "s": "knower", "quadranym_id": 14 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "N", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 743 }, { "body": "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. ― Olivier", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 744 }, { "body": "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. ― Franklin P. Jones", "qode": "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you q1n_VBP a mistake when you make it again. ― Franklin P. Jones", "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": 745 }, { "body": "Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instructions afterward.", "qode": "Experience is the q1r_JJS teacher. It always gives the test first and the instructions afterward.", "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": 746 }, { "body": "Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 747 }, { "body": "Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 748 }, { "body": "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. ― H. L. Mencken, \"The Divine Afflatus\" (16 November 1917)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2569 }, { "body": "Extreme good-naturedness borders on weakness of character. Avoid it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 749 }, { "body": "Extremes of fortune are fatal to folks of small dimensions. ― Arnold Glasow", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 750 }, { "body": "Facts are simple and facts are straight / Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view / Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around / Facts are living turned inside out. Facts are getting the best of them / Facts are nothing on the face of things. Facts don't stain the furniture / Facts go out and slam the door. Facts are written all over your face / Facts continue to change their shape. ― Talking Heads", "qode": "Facts are simple and facts are straight/ Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view/ Facts do n't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the q2n_NN around/ Facts are living turned inside out. Facts are getting the q3e_JJS of them/ Facts are q4r_NN on the face of things. Facts do n't stain the furniture/ Facts go out and slam the door. Facts are written all over your face/ Facts continue to q1o_VB their shape. ― Talking Heads", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 }, { "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": "Dickensian disparity", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "e": "best", "r": "worst", "o": "wisdom", "s": "foolishness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 129 }, { "name": "Dickensian zeal", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "everything", "r": "nothing", "o": "hope", "s": "despair", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 131 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "NERO", "depth": 4, "fortune_id": 753 }, { "body": "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 752 }, { "body": "Failing to get them to do it your way might mean they're stupid, but it also means you failed to get them to do it your way. ― Cal Keegan", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 754 }, { "body": "Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.", "qode": "Failure is more frequently from want of q1o_NN than want of capital.", "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": 755 }, { "body": "Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. ― Ferenc Mantfeld", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 756 }, { "body": "Faire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps. Si on vous fait attendre, c'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire. [Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better, and to please you.] ― Menu of Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans [Also, what we're going to be telling our customers]", "qode": "Faire de la bonne q1e_NN demande un certain temps. Si on vous fait attendre, c'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire.[ Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better, and to please you.] ― Menu of Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans[ Also, what we 're going to be telling our customers]", "q1": [ { "name": "egg_food", "user": "dane", "e": "cuisine", "r": "eat", "o": "sustenance", "s": "taste", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 121 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "E", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 757 }, { "body": "Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 758 }, { "body": "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ― H. L. Mencken", "qode": "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical q1o_NN in the occurrence of the improbable. ― H. L. Mencken", "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": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2568 }, { "body": "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. ― H.L. Mencken, \"Prejudices: Third Series\", 1922", "qode": "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical q1o_NN in the occurrence of the improbable. ― H.L. Mencken,\" Prejudices: Third Series\", 1922", "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": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 2571 }, { "body": "Falling in love makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. ― Dave Sim, author of \"Cerberus the Aardvark\"", "qode": "Falling in q1e_NN makes smoking pot all day look like the ultimate in restraint. ― Dave Sim, author of\" Cerberus the Aardvark\"", "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": 759 }, { "body": "Familiarity breeds attempt", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 760 }, { "body": "Familiarity breeds children.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 761 }, { "body": "Familiarity breeds contempt.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 762 }, { "body": "Families, when a child is born/Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence,/Having wrecked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove/Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life/By becoming a Cabinet Minister ― Su Tung-p'o", "qode": "Families, when a child is born/ Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence,/Having wrecked my q1s_JJ life, Only q2o_VB the baby will prove/ Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life/ By becoming a Cabinet Minister ― Su Tung- p'o", "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 }, { "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": 763 }, { "body": "Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ― Santayana", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 764 }, { "body": "Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. ― Goya", "qode": "Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the q1s_NN of marvels. ― Goya", "q1": [ { "name": "movement", "user": "dane", "e": "attractive", "r": "repulsive", "o": "destination", "s": "origin", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 117 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 765 }, { "body": "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. ― Theodore Roosevelt", "qode": "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they q1e_VBP in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. ― Theodore Roosevelt", "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": 766 }, { "body": "Far duller than a serpent's tooth it is to spend a quiet youth.", "qode": "Far duller than a serpent 's tooth it is to q1r_VB a quiet youth.", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "R", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 767 }, { "body": "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea ... ― Douglas Adams, \"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy\"", "qode": "q3e^RB out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a q3n_NN of roughly ninety- eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue- green planet whose ape- descended q1n_NN forms are so amazingly primitive that they still q2r_VBP digital watches are a pretty neat idea ... ― Douglas Adams,\" The Hitchhiker 's Guide to the Galaxy\"", "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": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 }, { "name": "simplicity", "user": "dane", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity", "e": "live", "r": "think", "o": "details", "s": "generalities", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 108 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "ENNR", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 2721 }, { "body": "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ― Oscar Wilde", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 768 }, { "body": "Felson's Law: To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 769 }, { "body": "Few companies really work like the Borg. Most work a lot more like the Holy Roman Empire. News often takes weeks to travel from castle to castle by minstrel. ― Drew Sudell", "qode": "Few companies really q1o_VBP like the Borg. Most q1o_VBP a lot more like the Holy Roman Empire. News often takes weeks to travel from castle to castle by minstrel. ― Drew Sudell", "q1": [], "q2": [ { "name": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 } ], "subs": "OO", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 1084 }, { "body": "Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 770 }, { "body": "Field theories, unite!", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 771 }, { "body": "Finagle's Creed: Science is true. Don't be misled by facts.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 772 }, { "body": "Finagle's First Law: If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 773 }, { "body": "Finagle's Second Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 774 }, { "body": "Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us ― and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. ― Carl Sagan, \"The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,\" Parade, February 1, 1987", "qode": "Finding the occasional straw of q1n_NN awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we do n't practice these tough habits of thought, we can not q2o_VB to solve the truly serious problems that face us ― and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along. ― Carl Sagan,\" The Fine Art of Baloney Detection,\" Parade, February 1, 1987", "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 }, { "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": "NO", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 775 }, { "body": "Fine day to throw a party. Throw him as far as you can.", "qode": "Fine day to throw a party. Throw him as q1e_RB as you can.", "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": 777 }, { "body": "Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.", "qode": "Fine day to q1o_VB off excess energy. Steal something heavy.", "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": 778 }, { "body": "Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like. ― pixadel", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 776 }, { "body": "Finster's Law: a closed mouth gathers no feet.", "qode": "Finster 's Law: a q1o_VBN mouth gathers no feet.", "q1": [ { "name": "close", "user": "scotty", "e": "reach", "r": "push", "o": "closed", "s": "push action", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 62 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "O", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 779 }, { "body": "First Law of Procrastination: Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who imposed the deadline).", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 780 }, { "body": "First Law of Socio-Genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 781 }, { "body": "First Rule of History: History doesn't repeat itself, historians merely repeat each other.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 782 }, { "body": "FLASH! Intelligence of mankind decreasing. Details at ... uh, when the little hand is on the ....", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 751 }, { "body": "Flee at once: All is discovered.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 783 }, { "body": "Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 784 }, { "body": "Flugg's Law: When you need to knock on wood is when you realize that the world is composed of vinyl, naugahyde and aluminum.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 785 }, { "body": "Follow the river and you will eventually find the sea.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 786 }, { "body": "Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings. ― George Will", "qode": "Football combines the two q1r_JJS features of American life: violence and committee meetings. ― George Will", "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": 787 }, { "body": "For an idea to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 790 }, { "body": "For a really sweet time, call C6H12O6.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 788 }, { "body": "For a while there I was worried that my tin foil beanie was blocking the TopFive.com website. Luckily it turned out to be a router problem. ― Attributed to \"wubwub\", quoted on www.ruminate.com (2004)", "qode": "For a while there I was worried that my tin foil beanie was q1s_VBG the TopFive.com website. Luckily it turned out to be a router problem. ― Attributed to\" wubwub\", quoted on www.ruminate.com( 2004)", "q1": [ { "name": "barrier", "user": "scotty", "e": "wall", "r": "door", "o": "section", "s": "blocking", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 63 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "S", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 789 }, { "body": "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 791 }, { "body": "For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill. ― R. Clopton", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 792 }, { "body": "Forgetfulness, n.: A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 797 }, { "body": "For one American husband who maintains a chorus girl in Levantine luxury around the corner, there are hundreds who are as true to their oaths, year in and year out, as so many convicts in the deathhouse. ― H.L. Mencken, In Defense of Women, 1922.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2572 }, { "body": "For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say \"Canada\". Maybe we should invade South Dakota or something. ― Sandra Gotlieb, wife of the Canadian ambassador to the U.S.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 793 }, { "body": "For some reason, this fortune reminds everyone of Marvin Zelkowitz.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 794 }, { "body": "For the politicians this was never about how efficient they could make things happen or how to solve a problem, it is about the *appearance* of efficiency, or problem solving. My observation is that most politicians think more like sales people than technicians, and are about as clueful. Which means, unless the politicians change the way they think, discussion about how to use *them* to go about really solving these problems would be like asking a booth babe to write a kernel module. ― Rich Costine", "qode": "For the politicians this was never about how efficient they could make things happen or how to solve a problem, it is about the* appearance* of efficiency, or problem solving. My q1o_NN is that most politicians q2r_VBP more like sales people than technicians, and are about as clueful. Which means, unless the politicians q3o_VBP the way they q2r_VBP, discussion about how to use* them* to go about really solving these problems would be like asking a booth babe to write a kernel module. ― Rich Costine", "q1": [ { "name": "creator", "user": "dane", "e": "cause", "r": "effect", "o": "change", "s": "produce", "quadranym_id": 6 }, { "name": "experience", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience", "e": "discovery", "r": "recovery", "o": "observation", "s": "awareness", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 82 }, { "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": "OROR", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 795 }, { "body": "For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. ― Abraham Lincoln", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 796 }, { "body": "... Fortunately, the responsibility for providing evidence is on the part of the person making the claim, not the critic. It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone. The skeptic's role is to point out claims that are not adequately supported by acceptable evidence and to provide plausible alternative explanations that are more in keeping with the accepted body of scientific evidence. ... ― Thomas L. Creed, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, pg. 215", "qode": "... Fortunately, the responsibility for providing q1n_NN is on the q3s_NN of the person making the claim, not the critic. It is not the responsibility of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the responsibility of paranormal- health- claims skeptics to prove that crystals or colored lights never healed anyone. The skeptic 's role is to point out claims that are not adequately supported by acceptable q1n_NN and to provide plausible alternative explanations that are more in keeping with the accepted q2o_NN of scientific q1n_NN. ... ― Thomas L. Creed, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, pg. 215", "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": "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": [ { "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 } ], "subs": "NSNON", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 114 }, { "body": "Fourth Law of Revision: It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about interferences ― if you have none, someone will make one for you.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 798 }, { "body": "Fourth Law of Thermodymanics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. ― David Ellis", "qode": "Fourth Law of Thermodymanics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is q1r_RB q2r_IN zero. ― David Ellis", "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": "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": "RR", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 799 }, { "body": "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 800 }, { "body": "Fresco's Discovery: If you knew what you were doing you'd probably be bored.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 801 }, { "body": "Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 802 }, { "body": "Frisbeetarianism, n.: The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.", "qode": "Frisbeetarianism, n.: The q2o_NN that when you die, your q1s_NN goes up on the roof and gets stuck.", "q1": [ { "name": "transcendence", "user": "dane", "src": "Traditional!?", "e": "spirit", "r": "mind", "o": "body", "s": "soul", "quadranym_id": 32 }, { "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": "OS", "depth": 2, "fortune_id": 803 }, { "body": "Frobnicate, v.: To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. Derived from FROBNITZ. Usually abbreviated to FROB. Thus one has the saying \"to frob a frob\". See TWEAK and TWIDDLE. Usage: FROB, TWIDDLE, and TWEAK sometimes connote points along a continuum. FROB connotes aimless manipulation; TWIDDLE connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; TWEAK connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 804 }, { "body": "From Fronto I learned to observe what envy, and duplicity, and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection. ― Marcus Aurelius, \"The Meditations\", Book I", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 2602 }, { "body": "From the ice-age to the dole-age there is but one concern and I have just discovered: some girls are bigger than others some girls are bigger than others some girls are bigger than other girls' mothers ― The Smiths", "qode": "From the ice- age to the dole- age there is but one concern and I have just discovered: some girls are bigger than q1o^NNS some girls are bigger than q1o^NNS some girls are bigger than q1o_JJ girls' mothers ― The Smiths", "q1": [ { "name": "partner", "user": "dane", "e": "mutual", "r": "accountability", "o": "other", "s": "individual", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 128 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "OOO", "depth": 1, "fortune_id": 805 }, { "body": "From too much love of living/From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving/Whatever gods may be, That no life lives forever/That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea. ― Swinburne", "qode": "From too much q2e_NN of living/ From q3o_NN and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving/ Whatever gods may be, That no q1n_NN lives forever/ That dead men rise up never, That even the weariest river winds somewhere safe to sea. ― Swinburne", "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": "life", "user": "scotty", "wiki": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life", "e": "perfect", "r": "balance", "o": "work", "s": "relax", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 75 }, { "name": "Dickensian zeal", "user": "scotty", "src": "Charles Dickens", "area": "Literature", "wiki": "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Cities", "e": "everything", "r": "nothing", "o": "hope", "s": "despair", "pos": "NN", "quadranym_id": 131 } ], "q2": [], "subs": "EON", "depth": 3, "fortune_id": 806 }, { "body": "Froud's Law: A transistor protected by a fast acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 807 }, { "body": "Fudd's First Law of Opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall over.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 808 }, { "body": "Furbling, v.: Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line. ― Rich Hall, \"Sniglets\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 809 }, { "body": "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. ― H. H. Williams", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 810 }, { "body": "Gadji beri bimba clandridi/Lauli lonni cadori gadjam A bim beri glassala glandride/E glassala tuffm I Zimbra. ― Talking Heads (I Zimbra)", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 811 }, { "body": "Garbage In ― Gospel Out.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 813 }, { "body": "Garter, n.: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her stockings and desolating the country. ― Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil's Dictionary\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 814 }, { "body": "G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home: \"Go on writing plays, my boy. One of these days a London producer will go into his office and say to his secretary, `Is there a play from Shaw this morning?' and when she says `No,' he will say, `Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish.' And that's your chance, my boy.\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 812 }, { "body": "Genderplex, n.: The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises). ― Rich Hall, \"Sniglets\"", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 815 }, { "body": "Gene Police: YOU! Out of the pool!", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 816 }, { "body": "Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 817 }, { "body": "Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 818 }, { "body": "Genius: A chemist who discovers a laundry additive that rhymes with \"bright\".", "qode": "", "q1": [], "q2": [], "subs": "", "depth": 0, "fortune_id": 821 } ] }