var howMany = 47; var quote = new Array(howMany+1); quote[0]="“All my good reading was done in the toilet…There are passages of Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet — if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.” (Henry Miller) "; quote[1]="“[H]istory…does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the facts that we carry it within us, are consciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.” (James Baldwin)"; quote[2]="“The Internet? Is that thing still around?” (Homer Simpson)"; quote[3]="“It is easy to get angry—anyone can do that…but to feel or act towards the right person to the right extent at the right time for the right reason in the right way—that is not easy, and it is not everyone that can do it. Hence to do these things well is a rare, laudable and noble achievement.” (Aristotle)"; quote[4]="“O' it is excellent to have a giant's strength; But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant” (Shakespeare)"; quote[5]="“While you are pointing your finger at someone else, remember that three fingers of the same hand are pointing back at you” (Anonymous)"; quote[6]="“It's with the bitter lives of bitter people that I sweeten my coffee this beautiful morning.” (Brazilian poetry)"; quote[7]="“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” (Abraham Lincoln)"; quote[8]="“After living in New York, you trust nobody, but you believe everything. Just in case.” (Anonymous)"; quote[9]="“I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation.” (G. B. Shaw)"; quote[10]="“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)"; quote[11]="“Good authors too who once knew better words, now only use four-letter words writing prose, anything goes.” (Cole Porter)"; quote[12]="“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano - A stage, where every man must play a part.” (Shakespeare\'s \"The Merchant of Venice\")"; quote[13]="“If to do were as easy to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men\'s cottages princes\' palaces.” (Shakespeare\'s \"The Merchant of Venice\")"; quote[14]="“Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.” (Frank Moore Colby)"; quote[15]="“\'So so\' is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not, it is but so.” (Shakespeare\'s \"As You Like It\")"; quote[16]="“When you make your mark in the world, watch out for guys with erasers.” (Anonymous)"; quote[17]="“The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.” (Glaser and Way)"; quote[18]="“For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.” (R. Clopton)"; quote[19]="“History repeats itself. That's one thing wrong with history.” (Anonymous)"; quote[20]="“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none.” (Doug Larson)"; quote[21]="“The strong is not the one who overcomes the people by his strength, but the strong is the one who controls himself while in anger.” (Prophet Muhammad [p.b.u.h.])"; quote[22]="“There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.” (Mohandas K. Gandhi)"; quote[23]="“There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man. True nobility comes from being superior to your old self.” (Hazrat Ali bin Abu Talib)"; quote[24]="“Ask in order to understand, and do not ask in order to find fault, for surely the ignorant man who wants to learn resembles a man of knowledge, and surely a man of knowledge who wants to be difficult resembles an ignorant man who wants to find fault.” (Hazrat Ali bin Abu Talib)"; quote[25]="“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” (Martin L. King, Jr)"; quote[26]="“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.” (Maya Angelou)"; quote[27]="“Believing presupposes understanding.” (Al-Ghazali)"; quote[28]="“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.” (Al-Ghazali)"; quote[29]="“A \'No\' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a \'Yes\' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” (Mohandas K. Gandhi)"; quote[30]="“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)"; quote[31]="“People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.” (Alice Walker)"; quote[32]="“What is simple should be treated simply, what is difficult should be reduced to the simplest terms.” (Josef Müller-Brockmann)"; quote[33]="“Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.” (Herb Brody)"; quote[34]="“The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it's open.” (Anonymous)"; quote[35]="“Your mind is like a tipi. Leave the entrance flap open so that the fresh air can enter and clear out the smoke of confusion.” (Chief Eagle, Teton Sioux)"; quote[36]="“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” (Albert Einstein)"; quote[37]="“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)"; quote[38]="“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do the things worth the writing.” (Benjamin Franklin)"; quote[39]="“I doubt whether all mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.” (John Stuart Mill)"; quote[40]="“Common sense is not so common.” (Voltaire)"; quote[41]="“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” (Horace Walpole)"; quote[42]="“I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.” (Frank Lloyd Wright)"; quote[43]="“There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.” (Henry van Dyke, poet)"; quote[44]="“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” (Stephen Hawking)"; quote[45]="“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.” (Robert Hayden)"; quote[46]="“There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.” (Jalaluddin Rumi)"; quote[47]="“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure” (Oscar Wilde)"; function rndnumber(){ var randscript = -1; while (randscript < 0 || randscript > howMany || isNaN(randscript)){ randscript = parseInt(Math.random()*(howMany+1)); } return randscript; } quo = rndnumber(); quox = quote[quo];