From 666e263344a6b8c175995d6eb49a3bbb78f6085d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shlomi Fish Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:10:22 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] continue applying the debian datfiles.diff --- fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie | 45 +++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie b/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie index 944ff38..4a67838 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ man. % The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, -makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external +makes it possible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation...to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak... I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive @@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ experience. -- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD % I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability -more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjution +more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjuction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonder child. -- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD @@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ falling into every conceivable error, dimly discerning light enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures to declare that we don't know the map of the universe as well as the map -of our infintesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that +of our infinitesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness... -- Leslie Stephen, "An agnostic's Apology", Fortnightly Review, 1876 % @@ -1789,12 +1789,12 @@ that they are easily disposed to resort to the sword. My own belief in God, then, is just that -- a matter of belief, not knowledge. My respect for Jesus Christ arises from the fact that He seems to have been the most virtuous inhabitant of Planet Earth. But even well-educated Christians -are frustated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure +are frustrated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure of Jesus because of the undeniable ambiguity of the scriptural record. Such ambiguity is not apparent to children or fanatics, but every recognized Bible scholar is perfectly aware of it. Some Christians, alas, resort to formal lying to obscure such reality. - -- Steve Allen, comdeian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of + -- Steve Allen, comedian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of Conviction", edited by Philip Berman % ...it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the @@ -1877,7 +1877,7 @@ samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to common tests. It is the essence of all dogmatic faiths to hold that any such "show-down" is sacrilegious and perverse. The characteristic of religion, from their point of view, is that it is intellectually -secret, not public; peculiarly revealed, not generall known; +secret, not public; peculiarly revealed, not generally known; authoritatively declared, not communicated and tested in ordinary ways...It is pertinent to point out that, as long as religion is conceived as it is now by the great majority of professed religionists, @@ -1926,7 +1926,7 @@ as a transitional species makes more sense -- and gives us more hope. "Well, you see, it's such a transitional creature. It's a piss-poor reptile and not very much of a bird." -- Melvin Konner, from "The Tangled Wing", quoting a zoologist who has - studied the archeopteryz and found it "very much like people" + studied the archaeopteryx and found it "very much like people" % "You need tender loving care once a week - so that I can slap you into shape." -- Ellyn Mustard @@ -3017,7 +3017,7 @@ actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the -testimony of men long dead whose identy is not clearly established and +testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law... @@ -3138,12 +3138,12 @@ they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. -- Karl Lehenbauer % -This is, of course, totally uninformed specualation that I engage in to help +This is, of course, totally uninformed speculation that I engage in to help support my bias against such meddling... but there you have it. -- Peter da Silva, speculating about why a computer program that had been changed to do something he didn't approve of, didn't work % -"This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could +"This knowledge I pursue is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath." -- Paolo Uccello, Renaissance artist, discoverer of the laws of perspective % @@ -3423,7 +3423,7 @@ knows what is, he is spared all the vexing problems that follow this discovery. But as soon as the human animal who asked himself this question emerged, he plunged himself and his descendants into an eternity of doubt and brooding, speculation and truth-seeking that has goaded him through the -centures as reelentlessly as hunger or sexual longing. The chimp that does +centuries as relentlessly as hunger or sexual longing. The chimp that does not know that he exists is not driven to discover his origins and is spared the tragic necessity of contemplating his own end. And even if the animal experimenters succeed in teaching a chimp to count one hundred bananas or @@ -3544,7 +3544,7 @@ To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight. "Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well. - -- Bilbo Baggins, "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien, Chapter XII + -- Bilbo Baggins, "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien, Chapter XII % "A dirty mind is a joy forever." -- Randy Kunkee @@ -3783,13 +3783,13 @@ new diseases. She just isn't going to stand for it. -- Mark Twain % "You'll pay to know what you really think." - -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs + -- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs % "We live, in a very kooky time." -- Herb Blashtfalt % "Pull the wool over your own eyes!" - -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs + -- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs % "Okay," Bobby said, getting the hang of it, "then what's the matrix? If she's a deck, and Danbala's a program, what's cyberspace?" @@ -4084,7 +4084,7 @@ backups: always in season, never out of style. "There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearance; he somehow seemed dirty, though a close glance showed him as carefully shaven as an actor, and clad in immaculate linen." - -- H.L. Mencken, on the death of William Jennings Bryan + -- H. L. Mencken, on the death of William Jennings Bryan % Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like @@ -4345,7 +4345,7 @@ it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." "Ada is PL/I trying to be Smalltalk. -- Codoso diBlini % -"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by mean of zeal, +"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis O. Brandeis (Olmstead vs. United States) % @@ -4393,7 +4393,7 @@ possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank." -- Bullwinkle Moose % Remember, an int is not always 16 bits. I'm not sure, but if the 80386 is one -step closer to Intel's slugfest with the CPU curve that is aymptotically +step closer to Intel's slugfest with the CPU curve that is asymptotically approaching a real machine, perhaps an int has been implemented as 32 bits by some Unix vendors...? -- Derek Terveer @@ -4447,7 +4447,8 @@ a 'War' on it?" -- Rich Thomson, talk.politics.misc Professional wrestling: ballet for the common man. % "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a -cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H. L. Mencken +cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." + -- H. L. Mencken % "Are those cocktail-waitress fingernail marks?" I asked Colletti as he showed us these scratches on his chest. "No, those are on my back," Colletti @@ -4546,7 +4547,7 @@ reading comp.arch or rec.arts.sf-lovers. % ...I don't care for the term 'mechanistic'. The word 'cybernetic' is a lot more apropos. The mechanistic world-view is falling further and further behind -the real world where even simple systems can produce the most marvellous +the real world where even simple systems can produce the most marvelous chaos. -- Peter da Silva % @@ -5363,7 +5364,7 @@ When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some absurdity in his proposition. In answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present -case there appeared or semed to me some difference, etc. +case there appeared or seemed to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my @@ -5422,7 +5423,7 @@ Liberties Union gets indignant, and I hope this will always be so." -- Senator Adlai E. Stevenson % "The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that ->from time to time threaten freedoms everywhere... Indeed, it is difficult +from time to time threaten freedoms everywhere... Indeed, it is difficult to appreciate how far our freedoms might have eroded had it not been for the Union's valiant representation in the courts of the constitutional rights of people of all persuasions, no matter how unpopular or even despised @@ -5613,7 +5614,7 @@ What hath Bob wrought? He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own." - -- H.G. Wells + -- H. G. Wells % "Unlike most net.puritans, however, I feel that what OTHER consenting computers do in the privacy of their own phone connections is their own business." -- 2.40.0