commit 68bc912c4da65eabff562b588204b5c59d26d90a
parent 298e36a070d72638d2b25bfacb0a4fefebcf24a9
Author: Ed van Bruggen <edvb@uw.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:49:39 -0700
Update quotes
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/data/quotes.yaml b/data/quotes.yaml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia", "George Orwell" ]
- [ "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness", "George Orwell" ]
- [ "Happiness can exist only in acceptance", "George Orwell" ]
- - [ "The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain", "Karl Marx" ]
+ # - [ "The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain", "Karl Marx" ]
- [ "I think I am, actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand", "Donald Trump" ]
- [ "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible", "Donald Trump" ]
- [ "The beauty of me is that I'm very rich", "Donald Trump" ]
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you", "Pericles" ]
- [ "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people", "Super Hans" ]
- [ "History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction", "Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbbs" ]
- - [ "Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that the Nature he is destroying is this God he is worshipping", "Hubert Reeves" ]
+ - [ "Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible god and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that the Nature he is destroying is this god he is worshipping", "Hubert Reeves" ]
- [ "Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that claim a god, and the only living thing that behaves like it hasn't got one", "Hunter Thompson" ]
- [ "The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you", "Werner Heisenberg" ]
- [ "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all", "Adam Smith" ]
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "Terror without virtue is destructive; virtue without terror is impotent", "Maximilien Robespierre" ]
- [ "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" ]
- [ "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" ]
@@ -227,7 +228,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "We’re still pioneers, we’ve barely begun. Our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, cause our destiny lies above us", "Joseph Cooper" ]
- [ "Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here", "Joseph Cooper" ]
- [ "When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same", "Donald Trump" ]
- - [ "Do not mistake composer for ease", "Tuvok" ]
+ - [ "Do not mistake composure for ease", "Tuvok" ]
- [ "We don't make risks in life so we can make it safely to death" ]
- [ "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ]
- [ "Why do they act so surprised? When you treat people like animals you're going to get bit", "Frank Military" ]
@@ -267,7 +268,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible", "Freeman Dyson" ]
- [ "I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell", "Harry Truman" ]
- [ "Looking at the earth from afar you realise it is too small for conflict, and just big enough for cooperation", "Yuri Gagarin" ]
- - [ "See that's why we can't win. They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions", "Thomas Hauk" ]
+ # - [ "See that's why we can't win. They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions", "Thomas Hauk" ]
- [ "This is America, you're either a duper or a dupee", "Frank Reynolds" ]
- [ "Freud was right about a lot of things, but for all the wrong reasons" ]
- [ "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" ]
@@ -296,12 +297,24 @@ quotes:
- [ "Newton's greatest invention was the derivative. His second greatest was the second derivative" ]
- [ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim", "Edsger Dijkstra" ]
- [ "Variety is the spice of life, except for actual spices" ]
+ - [ "I could call my old pal Hank Kissinger, I'm sure he has a few war crimes he never pulled off" ]
+ - [ "No one thinks they're a war criminal, but you find yourself aiding a separatist movement to overthrow a democratically elected leader, and boom you're a war criminal" ]
- [ "This quote only looks profound when it's in a script font over a sunset", "Randall Munroe" ]
- [ "You can safely assume you've created god in your own image when it turns out that god hates all the same people you do", "Anne Lamott" ]
+ - [ "Country's flags are just pride flags for straight people" ]
- [ "I have always found it quaint, and rather touching, that there is a movement in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough", "Christopher Hitchens" ]
- [ "You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice", "Vladimir Lenin" ]
- [ "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor", "Desmond Tutu" ]
- [ "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't", "Mark Twain" ]
- [ "Everyone knows what an American sounds like, except the Americans", "Dominic West" ]
- - [ "There is a crack in everything, thats how the light gets in", "Leonard Cohen" ]
- - [ "A window covered with raindrops interets me more than a photograph of a famous person", "Saul Leiter" ]
+ - [ "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in", "Leonard Cohen" ]
+ - [ "A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person", "Saul Leiter" ]
+ - [ "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable", "John F Kennedy" ]
+ - [ "The more I practice the luckier I get", "Gary Player" ]
+ - [ "It takes a long time to realize how truly miserable you are, and even longer to see that it doesn't have to be that way", "Cuddlywhiskers" ]
+ - [ "Criticism is something we can avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, being nothing", "Aristotle" ]
+ - [ "Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand", "Pablo Picasso" ]
+ - [ "You don't take a photograph, you make it", "Ansel Adams" ]
+ - [ "Every day it gets a little easier… But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier", "A Jogging Baboon" ]
+ - [ "There are no boring places, only boring people" ]
+ - [ "Luck is the residue of design", "Wesley Branch Rickey" ]
