revised fortune

[feisty_meow.git] / infobase / fortunes.dat

diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat
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--- a/infobase/fortunes.dat
+++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat
@@ -2609,8 +2609,9 @@ And you may ask yourself  "Am I right?  Am I wrong?"
 And you may say to yourself  "MY GOD!  WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
   -- The Talking Heads
 ~
-The nice thing about standards is that there are
-so many of them to choose from.
+The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from;
+furthermore, if you do not like any of them,
+you can just wait for next year's model
   -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
 ~
 A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, will tell you.
@@ -43982,4 +43983,42 @@ fred's chow mantra:
   and use your brain to decide what you feed it.
     -- fred t. hamster
 ~
+No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
+  -- Voltaire
+~
+Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
+  -- Thomas Szasz
+~
+Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
+  -- Winnie the Pooh
+~
+It is well for people who think,
+to change their minds occasionally
+in order to keep them clean.
+  -- Luther Burbank
+~
+Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
+  -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
+~
+Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
+  -- Joseph Joubert
+~
+Most of the mistakes in thinking
+are inadequacies of perception
+rather than mistakes of logic.
+  -- Edward de Bono
+~
+Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
+  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+~
+What we think, we become. -- Shakyamuni Buddha
+~
+pseudo-code for our daily lives:
+
+repeat:
+    if (not one_thing) then { 
+        other_thing 
+    }
+:forever
+~