remove some softer world quotes

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
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--- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt
+++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
@@ -323,9 +323,9 @@ This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill
 in a vast and awesome universe.
  -- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record
 %
-Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
-have exhausted all other possibilities.
- -- W. Churchill
+[M]en and nations do behave wisely once they have exhausted all other
+alternatives.
+ -- Abba Ebban
 %
 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
@@ -747,19 +747,6 @@ which could be a miracle happen every second, the odds of not seeing a
 miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not
 all that miraculous.
 %
-They say when you embark on a journey
-of revenge
-dig two graves.
-They underestimate me.
- -- a softer world #560
-    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560
-%
-I never meant to let you down.
-I thought for sure
-the attic lock would hold.
- -- a softer world #562
-    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=562
-%
 I made a bunch of stickers
 to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels.
 "If you are reading this,
@@ -767,12 +754,6 @@ to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels.
  -- a softer world #569
     http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569
 %
-I'm sorry about those late night emails.
-I only said those things because I was too drunk
-to be afraid.
-  -- a softer world #579
-     http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579
-%
 6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2.
   -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_
 %
@@ -920,3 +901,7 @@ He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses.
 "While geologists argue, the rocks just sit there and sometimes they
 seem to smile"
  -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304
+%
+"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is
+a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
+ -- John Adams