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commit 3abc463dd309c131d3ade331eebfbd19ca9a1069
parent 942607ba410ed83994c5665e6561290dcd99d24f
Author: Ed van Bruggen <edvb@uw.edu>
Date:   Wed,  5 Jan 2022 13:50:47 -0800

Update quotes

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Mdata/quotes.yaml | 21++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/data/quotes.yaml b/data/quotes.yaml @@ -186,18 +186,18 @@ quotes: - [ "The value of an education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think", "Albert Einstein" ] - [ "Strange women lying in ponds disturbing swords is no basis for a system of government", "Denis" ] - [ "Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony", "Denis" ] - - [ "The universe is a cruel uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning its to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense and eventually, you'll be dead", "Mr Peanutbutter" ] + - [ "The universe is a cruel uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't to search for meaning, its to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense and eventually, you'll be dead", "Mr Peanutbutter" ] - [ "There is no shame in dying for nothing. That's why most people die", "Henry Winkler" ] - [ "When you look at someone through rose–colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags", "Wanda Pierce" ] - [ "Things don't become traditions because they're good, they become good because they're traditions", "Todd Chavez" ] - [ "I am not afraid of commitment. I commit to things all the time. It's the following through on that commitment that I take issue with", "BoJack Horseman" ] - [ "He's so stupid he doesn't realize how miserable he should be, I envy that", "BoJack Horseman" ] - - [ "Not understanding that you're a horrible person doesn't make you less of a horrible person", "BoJack Horseman" ] + # - [ "Not understanding that you're a horrible person doesn't make you less of a horrible person", "BoJack Horseman" ] - [ "One day, you're gonna look around and you're going to realize that everybody loves you, but nobody likes you. And that is the loneliest feeling in the world", "BoJack Horseman" ] - [ "I spend a lot of time with the real me, and trust me no one is going to like that guy", "BoJack Horseman" ] - [ "You have reached the end of your free trial at benjaminfranklinquotes.com", "Benjamin Franklin" ] - [ "Friends, family, religion, these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business", "C.M. Burns" ] - - [ "I'd trade it all for a little more", "C.M. Burns" ] + - [ "I'd trade it all for just a little more", "C.M. Burns" ] - [ "Physics is just maths with the restriction of reality, engineering is physics with the restriction of budget" ] - [ "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it", "George Bernard Shaw" ] - [ "Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist", "George Carlin" ] @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ quotes: - [ "Freud was right about a lot of things, but for all the wrong reasons" ] - [ "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" ] - [ "If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trail was in the Senate, nobody would convict you", "Lindsey Graham" ] - - [ "Fool me once shame on me, fool me twice, fiddle dee dee", "Mr Peanutbutter" ] + - [ "Fool me once shame on me, fool me twice, fiddle dee dee", "Mr. Peanutbutter" ] - [ "The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal", "Camille Paglia" ] - [ "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes", "Jack Handey" ] - [ "What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?", "Mr. Krabs" ] @@ -331,5 +331,16 @@ quotes: - [ "If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough", "Robert Capa" ] - [ "Photography is an art of observation. Its about finding something interesting in an ordinary place", "Elliott Erwitt" ] - [ "I've found photography has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way your see them", "Elliott Erwitt" ] + - [ "Only those who own the means of production are free" ] - [ "I hate these nerds, just cause I'm stupidier than them, they think they're smarter than me", "Professor Farnsworth" ] - - [ "To understand qunatum spin, imagine it as a sphere rotating except that it is not a sphere and it is not rotating" ] + - [ "To understand quantum spin, imagine it as a sphere rotating except that it is not a sphere and it is not rotating" ] + - [ "Oppressive language does more than represent violence, it is violence", "Toni Morrison" ] + - [ "All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers", "Francois Fenelon" ] + - [ "To play chess well is the sign of a gentleman. To master chess is the sign of a wasted life", "Paul Morphy" ] + - [ "She thinks I'm too critical. That's another fault of her's", "Lucille Bluth" ] + - [ "Like you'd recognize a vegetable that wasn't wrapped in a Monte Cristo sandwich", "Malorie Archer" ] + - [ "When I first started Reynholm Industries, I had just two things in my possession: a dream, and 6 million pounds", "Denholm Reynholm" ] + - [ "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism", "Mark Fisher" ] + - [ "Capitalism has produced a level of abundance sufficient to solve the initial problem of survival - but only in such a way that the same problem is continually being regenerated at a higher level", "Guy Debord" ] + - [ "To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself", "Karl Marx" ] + - [ "There's something very nice about people who don't inflict their own ambitions and drives on the rest of us, there's something noble about doing nothing", "Saul Leiter" ]