From 51811434f90d0a757eaefe9c748e33feb1213191 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:49:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fiddled some dashes. --- database/fortunes.dat | 34 +++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 31447cd1..fb156fa6 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -5093,10 +5093,10 @@ Truth's right before your very eyes. Distinctions such as large and small Have relevance for you no more. ~ -The largest is the smallest too- +The largest is the smallest too; Here limitations have no place. ~ -What is is not, what is not is- +What is is not, what is not is; If this is not yet clear to you, You're still far from the inner truth. ~ @@ -7475,7 +7475,7 @@ All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me--so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer. -- Homer Simpson ~ -You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline -- +You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline; it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. -- Frank Zappa @@ -8765,7 +8765,7 @@ Katsuo, 48. "Unfortunately I set them off accidently while looking for a boiled sweet on a rush hour train. They were crushing everybody in the carriage until a passenger stabbed them with a pencil." ~ -Kindness cannot be taught by harshness -- +Kindness cannot be taught by harshness-- not by any amount of harshness. -- Raymond M. Smullyan / The Tao is Silent ~ @@ -9957,7 +9957,7 @@ those that issue from the human mind? So intractable has been the problem of finding pattern in creative activity, that few would even seek it. If one looks not at science and art, but at scientists and artists, one finds a reflection of this divide. Two populations that overlap only a little, -convergent thinkers and divergent thinkers, specialists and generalists -- +convergent thinkers and divergent thinkers, specialists and generalists-- these labels reflect the differences of which we speak... While science has enlarged its past horizons beyond order and symmetry to embrace diversity and unpredictability, the humanities have yet to @@ -10085,15 +10085,15 @@ that America believes in them. -- Colin Powell's autobiography, "My American Journey" (Ballantine, 1996) ~ In the past fifteen years one big American company after another has -done this [i.e., downsized itself] -- among them IBM, Sears, and GM. Each +done this [i.e., downsized itself]--among them IBM, Sears, and GM. Each first announced that laying off 10,000 or 20,000 or even 50,000 people would lead to an immediate turnaround. A year later there had, of course, been no -turnaround, and the company laid off another 10,000 or 20,000 or 50,000 -- +turnaround, and the company laid off another 10,000 or 20,000 or 50,000-- again without results. In many if not most cases, downsizing has turned out to be something that surgeons have warned against: 'amputation before diagnosis.' The result is always a casualty. - But there have been a few organizations -- some large companies (GE, -for instance) and a few hospitals (Beth Israel in Boston, for instance) -- + But there have been a few organizations--some large companies (GE, +for instance) and a few hospitals (Beth Israel in Boston, for instance)-- that quietly, and without fanfare, did turn themselves around, by rethinking themselves. They did not start out by downsizing. If fact, they knew that to start by reducing expenditures is not the way to get control of costs. @@ -10102,11 +10102,11 @@ should be strengthened, promoted, and expanded. Every agency, every policy, every program, every activity should be confronted with these questions: 'What is your mission?' 'Is it still the right mission?' 'Is it still worth doing?' 'If we were not already doing this, would we go into it now?' -This questioning has been done often enough in all kinds of organizations -- -businesses, hospitals, churches, an even local governments -- that we know +This questioning has been done often enough in all kinds of organizations-- +businesses, hospitals, churches, an even local governments--that we know it works. The overall answer is almost never 'This is fine as it stands; let's -keep on.' But in some -- indeed, a good many -- areas, the answer to the +keep on.' But in some--indeed, a good many--areas, the answer to the last question is 'Yes, we should go into this again, but with some changes. We have learned a few things.' -- Peter F. Drucker, from "Managing in a Time of Great Change," @@ -10336,8 +10336,8 @@ Both his ears awake. ~ A most nerve-wracking confirmation of this came some time ago during an interview with the producer and the writer of the TV mini-series 'Peter -the Great.' Defending the historical inaccuracies in the drama -- which -included a fabricated meeting between Peter and Sir Isaac Newton -- the +the Great.' Defending the historical inaccuracies in the drama--which +included a fabricated meeting between Peter and Sir Isaac Newton--the producer said that no one would watch a dry, historically faithful biography. The writer added that it is better for audiences to learn something that is untrue, if it is entertaining, than not to learn anything @@ -10534,7 +10534,7 @@ Businesses will not buy Linux because there is no one to sue. -- LinuxToday ~ Even if something new does not require a disruption of the old, there -is no space. People, time and resources are fully stretched -- in many +is no space. People, time and resources are fully stretched--in many cases there is actually a cutting-back in resources. The paradox is that as we advance into the future the need for change gets greater and greater (to cope with changes in population, pollution, @@ -10665,7 +10665,7 @@ diverting result. The four years passed at college were, for his purposes, wasted. Harvard College was a good school, but at bottom what the boy disliked most was any school at all. He did not want to be one in a -hundred -- one percent of an education. He regarded himself as the +hundred--one percent of an education. He regarded himself as the only person for whom his education had value, and he wanted the whole of it. He got barely half of an average. Long afterwards, when the devious path of life led him back to @@ -10673,7 +10673,7 @@ teach in his turn what no student naturally cared or needed to know [medieval history], he diverted some dreary hours of faculty meetings by looking up his record in the class-lists, and found himself graded precisely in the middle. In the one branch he most needed -- -mathematics -- barring the few first scholars, failure was so nearly +mathematics--barring the few first scholars, failure was so nearly universal that no attempt at grading could have had value, and whether he stood fortieth or ninetieth must have been an accident or the personal favor of the professor. Here his education failed -- 2.34.1