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commit a3e9526305274ea034a743841135a75fce80bc52
parent 5c69f6c2124366706cc9ba43c856c966ddb7dbcf
Author: Ed van Bruggen <ed@edryd.org>
Date:   Mon, 25 Jul 2022 17:59:54 -0400

Update quotes

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Mdata/quotes.yaml | 34+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/data/quotes.yaml b/data/quotes.yaml @@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ quotes: - [ "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" ] + - [ "Family, religion, friendship, these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business", "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" ] @@ -297,8 +297,8 @@ 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" ] + - [ "I could call my old pal Hank Kissinger, I'm sure he has a few war crimes he never pulled off", "Sy Borgman" ] + - [ "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", "Sy Borgman" ] - [ "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" ] @@ -344,3 +344,31 @@ quotes: - [ "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" ] + - [ "The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation", "Susan Meiselas" ] + - [ "There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope", "Mark Twain" ] + - [ "I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter", "James Michener" ] + - [ "The first draft is just you telling yourself the story", "Terry Pratchet" ] + - [ "Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing, well I say 'hard cheese'", "Mr. Burns" ] + - [ "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world is own shame", "Oscar Wilde" ] + - [ "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man", "Heraclitus" ] + - [ "When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are ruled by criminals", "Edward Snowden" ] + - [ "Get comfortable being uncomfortable, worry is a misuse of your imagination" ] + - [ "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater", "Albert Einstein" ] + - [ "Comparison is the thief of joy" ] + - [ "Life is the shit that happens, while you're waiting for moments that never come", "Lester Freamon" ] + - [ "A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera", "Dorothea Langae" ] + - [ "I am not interested in photographing new things, I am interested to see things new", "Ernst Haas" ] + - [ "It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better", "Ella Maillart" ] + - [ "The only people crossing wormholes are theoretical physicists with equations as their spaceships", "Alessandro Roussel" ] + - [ "You people and your slight differences disgust me", "Professor Farnsworth" ] + - [ "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it", "Jack Handey" ] + - [ "Liftoff from a tropical rainforest to the edge of time itself, James Webb begins a voyage back to the birth of the universe", "Rob Navias" ] + - [ "Dying together sucks a little less than dying alone", "Jake the Dog" ] + - [ "Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something", "Jake the Dog" ] + - [ "There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits", "Karl Marx" ] + - [ "I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people", "Eduardo Galeano" ] + - [ "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature", "Niels Bohr" ] + - [ "Physics is the only thing you can really understand; it's the rest of the world that doesn't make sense", "Sabine Hossenfelder" ] + - [ "Money ain't got no owners. Only spenders.", "Omar Little" ] + - [ "Forgiveness from other folks is good, but ain't nothing but words coming at you from outside. You want to kick this shit, you got to forgive your own self", "Walon" ] + - [ "Butter the toast, eat the toast, shit the toast. God, life's relentless", "Jeremy Usborne" ]