fortune

A simple Unix program that displays a random quote from a list of quotations.
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commit e0fbaca1bf919b1c3300c7aa9663756a713ad3cb
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Author: Evan Alba <evanalba@protonmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:16:06 -0700

feat: update evanalba. September 28th, 2024.

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diff --git a/evanalba b/evanalba @@ -1106,4 +1106,51 @@ Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. - Marie Curie +% +When you have a goal that is important enough to you, nothing will stand in +your way. + - Michael Phelps +% +You have to get up and do something. +Because I think, that's really what separates the good from the great. +The greats do things when they don't always want to do them. + - Michael Phelps +% +Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... +but to weigh and consider. + - Francis Bacon +% +To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is +impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think. + - Lord Byron +% +The most effective experimenters are usually those who give much thought to +the problem beforehand and resolve it into crucial questions and then give +much thought to designing experiments to answer the questions. + - William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, The Art of Scientific Investigation +% +In many respects the research worker resembles the pioneer. He explores the +frontiers of knowledge and requires many of the same attributes: enterprise +and initiative, readiness to face difficulties and overcome them with his own +resourcefulness and ingenuity, perseverance, a spirit of adventure, a certain +dissatisfaction with well-known territory and prevailing ideas, and an +eagerness to try his own judgment. + - William Ian Beardmore Beveridge, The Art of Scientific Investigation +% +The expert at anything was once a beginner. + - Helen Hayes +% +Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. + - Helen Hayes +% +Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life +is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is +really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much +as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what +you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with +other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all. + - Richard P. Feynman +% +Done is better than perfect. + - Sheryl Sandberg