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/* <pre><nowiki> */ //store the quotations in arrays var quotes = new Array(); var authors = new Array(); quotes[0] = "All professions should be done with concentration."; authors[0] = "Hagakure - The Book of the Samurai"; quotes[1] = "The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."; authors[1] = "Frank Herbert"; quotes[2] = "Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."; authors[2] = "Lazarus Long"; quotes[3] = "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."; authors[3] = "Oscar Wilde"; quotes[4] = "Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom."; authors[4] = "Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama"; quotes[5] = "Who said I was wise? I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one."; authors[5] = "Jubal Harshaw"; quotes[6] = "Regulations are written by those who have never been in battle. Our only mission in combat is to win."; authors[6] = "General George S. Patton"; quotes[7] = "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."; authors[7] = "St. Augustine"; quotes[8] = "I was left in no doubt about the severity of the hangover when a cat stamped into the room."; authors[8] = "P. G. Wodehouse"; quotes[9] = "There are only two choices. A police state in which all dissent is suppressed or rigidly controlled; or a society where law is responsive to human needs."; authors[9] = "William O. Douglas"; quotes[10] = "If there are no consequences, then there will be no self-control."; authors[10] = "Prelate Verna Sauventreen"; quotes[11] = "You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on."; authors[11] = "Steve Jobs"; quotes[12] = "Mankind makes tools; we use them to augment our hands, arms and legs. The computer augments the brain and this makes it very unpopular with totalitarians."; authors[12] = "Charles J.C. Lyall"; quotes[13] = "Those who cannot reason are fools, those who will not reason are bigots, those who dare not reason are slaves."; authors[13] = "William Drummond"; quotes[14] = "Everything is worth something to somebody."; authors[14] = "Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #49"; quotes[15] = "Never buy what can be stolen."; authors[15] = "Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #61"; quotes[16] = "Morality is always defined by those in power."; authors[16] = "Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #28"; quotes[17] = "Buy, sell, or get out of the way."; authors[17] = "Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #119"; quotes[18] = "Sometimes the only thing more dangerous than the question is an answer."; authors[18] = "Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #208"; quotes[19] = "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."; authors[19] = "Jeremy S. Anderson"; quotes[20] = "Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie."; authors[20] = "Wizard's Fifth Rule"; quotes[21] = "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."; authors[21] = "Friedrich Nietzsche"; quotes[22] = "Doing something new with different people helps you to see your own strengths and, perhaps more importantly, your own weaknesses."; authors[22] = "Eddie Vedder"; quotes[23] = "I don't know the percentage of the Internet that's valid, do you? Jesus, it's scary."; authors[23] = "Hunter S. Thompson"; quotes[24] = "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."; authors[24] = "Abraham Lincoln"; quotes[25] = "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."; authors[25] = "Margaret Mead"; quotes[26] = "After the last tree has been cut down; after the last river has been poisoned; after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."; authors[26] = "A Cree Prophecy"; quotes[27] = "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."; authors[27] = "Anais Nin"; quotes[28] = "We must learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to perish together as fools."; authors[28] = "Martin Luther King, Jr."; quotes[29] = "Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive."; authors[29] = "Jean Jaures"; quotes[30] = "Let the next guy know what killed you."; authors[30] = "NASA Maxim"; quotes[31] = "When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."; authors[31] = "Tecumseh of the Shawnee tribe"; quotes[32] = "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion."; authors[32] = "Henry David Thoreau"; quotes[33] = "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."; authors[33] = "Helen Keller"; quotes[34] = "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."; authors[34] = "Oscar Wilde"; quotes[35] = "A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man."; authors[35] = "Don Vito Corleone"; quotes[36] = "Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that."; authors[36] = "Don Vito Corleone"; quotes[37] = "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."; authors[37] = "Don Vito Corleone"; quotes[38] = "Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people."; authors[38] = "Don Vito Corleone"; quotes[39] = "There is no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it is to have a friend underestimate your virtues."; authors[39] = "Mario Puzo"; quotes[40] = "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."; authors[40] = "P.J. O'Rourke"; quotes[41] = "There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one."; authors[41] = "Niccolo Machiavelli"; quotes[42] = "He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."; authors[42] = "Michel de Montaigne"; quotes[43] = "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."; authors[43] = "Marcus Aurelius"; quotes[44] = "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."; authors[44] = "Samuel Adams"; quotes[45] = "All warfare is based on deception."; authors[45] = "Sun Tzu"; quotes[46] = "When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."; authors[46] = "Eugene V. Debs"; quotes[47] = "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."; authors[47] = "Henry David Thoreau"; quotes[48] = "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."; authors[48] = "Mahatma Gandhi"; quotes[49] = "They made a wasteland and called it peace."; authors[49] = "Tacitus"; quotes[50] = "I'd estimate his chances were one in a very large number."; authors[50] = "Malcolm Reynolds"; quotes[51] = "Never tell me the odds."; authors[51] = "Han Solo"; quotes[52] = "What are the facts? Again and again and again—what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell,' avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable 'verdict of history'—what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!"; authors[52] = "Robert A. Heinlein"; quotes[53] = "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."; authors[53] = "Robert A. Heinlein"; quotes[54] = "I object to intellect without discipline - I object to power without constructive purpose."; authors[54] = "Spock"; quotes[55] = "If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes."; authors[55] = "James T. Kirk"; quotes[56] = "If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are."; authors[56] = "Jean Luc Picard"; quotes[57] = "Sometimes it's possible to make no mistakes and still lose. It is not a weakness. It is life."; authors[57] = "Jean Luc Picard"; quotes[58] = "There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle."; authors[58] = "Albert Einstein" quotes[59] = "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."; authors[59] = "Denis Diderot"; quotes[60] = "There ain't no denyin' it, when this flag called Truth ... I'ma flyin' it."; authors[60] = "Disefeswrath" quotes[61] = "...and above all else, unto thine own self be true."; authors[61] = "Shakespeare"; quotes[62] = "Do, or do not. There is no try."; authors[62] = "Yoda"; quotes[63] = "Always yield to temptation, you never know when it may pass your way again."; authors[63] = "Lazarus Long"; quotes[64] = "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."; authors[64] = "Peter Gibbons"; quotes[65] = "I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."; authors[65] = "Andy Dufresne"; quotes[66] = "Have fun storming the castle!" authors[66] = "Miracle Max"; quotes[67] = "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."; authors[67] = "George Bernard Shaw"; quotes[68] = "We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we began to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing- and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization."; authors[68] = "Petronius Arbiter"; quotes[69] = "Beware the fury of a patient man."; authors[69] = "John Dryden"; quotes[70] = "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."; authors[70] = "Oscar Wilde"; quotes[71] = "We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."; authors[71] = "Mother Theresa"; quotes[72] = "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."; authors[72] = "Ralph Waldo Emerson"; quotes[73] = "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."; authors[73] = "Nelson Mandela"; quotes[74] = "Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win."; authors[74] = "Lois McMaster Bujold"; quotes[75] = "If you can't bite, don't show your teeth."; authors[75] = "Yiddish Proverb"; quotes[76] = "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."; authors[76] = "Chinese Proverb"; quotes[77] = "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one."; authors[77] = "C.S. Lewis"; quotes[78] = "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."; authors[78] = "Japanese Proverb"; quotes[79] = "The best armor is to keep out of range."; authors[79] = "Italian Proverb"; quotes[80] = "If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."; authors[80] = "Latin Proverb"; quotes[81] = "Never give a child a sword."; authors[81] = "Latin Proverb"; quotes[82] = "Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."; authors[82] = "Henry Drummond"; quotes[83] = "In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication."; authors[83] = "Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama"; quotes[84] = "Always in motion is the future."; authors[84] = "Yoda"; quotes[85] = "Until the possible becomes actual, it is only a distraction."; authors[85] = "Qui-Gon Jinn"; quotes[86] = "Patience you must have until the mud settles and the water becomes clear."; authors[86] = "Yoda"; quotes[87] = "We can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make."; authors[87] = "Francisco d'Anconia"; quotes[88] = "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."; authors[88] = "Edmund Burke"; quotes[89] = "The road to a friend's house is never long."; authors[89] = "Danish Proverb"; quotes[90] = "The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."; authors[90] = "J.R.R. Tolkien"; quotes[91] = "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."; authors[91] = "John Stuart Mill"; quotes[92] = "Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."; authors[92] = "Helen Keller"; quotes[93] = "The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear."; authors[93] = "Sophia Loren"; quotes[94] = "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."; authors[94] = "George Orwell"; quotes[95] = "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."; authors[95] = "Joshua"; quotes[96] = "Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries."; authors[96] = "Thomas Carlyle"; quotes[97] = "No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."; authors[97] = "Thomas Carlyle"; quotes[98] = "We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings."; authors[98] = "Thomas Carlyle"; quotes[99] = "Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction."; authors[99] = "Albert Einstein"; quotes[100] = "Games lubricate the body and the mind."; authors[100] = "Benjamin Franklin"; quotes[101] = "Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."; authors[101] = "Benjamin Franklin"; quotes[102] = "Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent."; authors[102] = "Voltaire"; quotes[103] = "Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement."; authors[103] = "Don Michael Corleone"; quotes[104] = "... bright young men of disheveled appearance, often with sunken glowing eyes, can be seen sitting at computer consoles, their arms tensed and waiting to fire their fingers, already poised to strike, at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to be riveted as a gambler's on the rolling dice. When not so transfixed, they often sit at tables strewn with computer printouts over which they pore like possessed students of a cabbalistic text. They work until they nearly drop, twenty, thirty hours at a time. Their food, if they arrange it, is brought to them: coffee, Cokes, sandwiches. If possible, they sleep on cots near the printouts. Their rumpled clothes, their unwashed and unshaven faces, and their uncombed hair all testify that they are oblivious to their bodies and to the world in which they move."; authors[104] = "Joseph Weizenbaum"; quotes[105] = "Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."; authors[105] = "Francis Hutcheson"; quotes[106] = "Every problem has a better solution when you start thinking it differently than the normal way."; authors[106] = "Steve Wozniak"; quotes[107] = "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves."; authors[107] = "William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)"; quotes[108] = "Style can get you killed."; authors[108] = "Winston King (Dustin Hoffman in Confidence)" ; quotes[109] = "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."; authors[109] = "Steve Wozniak"; quotes[110] = "Opportunity only knocks on the doors of the rooms you enter."; authors[110] = "Disefeswrath"; quotes[111] = "Wise men talk because they have something to say - fools, because they have to say something."; authors[111] = "Plato"; quotes[112] = "It's mind over matter - if you don't mind, it don't matter."; authors[112] = "Brett Favre"; quotes[113] = "Do not be too sweet lest you be eaten, do not be too sour, lest you be shunned."; authors[113] = "Sicilian Proverb"; quotes[114] = "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."; authors[114] = "Epictetus"; quotes[115] = "How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life!"; authors[115] = "Marcus Aurelius"; //calculate a random index index = Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length); //display the quotation document.write('<dl><dt>' + '"' + quotes[index] + '"\n<font align="right" color="red"><dd>' + '-- ' + authors[index] + '</dd></font></dt></dl>\n'); /* </nowiki></pre> */