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If a man can control his mind, he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.", + "author": "Buddha" + }, + { + "content": "There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.", + "author": "Confucius" + }, + { + "content": "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.", + "author": "Bertrand Russell" + }, + { + "content": "There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.", + "author": "Benjamin Franklin" + }, + { + "content": "Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.", + "author": "Arthur C. Clarke" + }, + { + "content": "Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?", + "author": "Thomas Jefferson" + }, + { + "content": "I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.", + "author": "Amy Tan" + }, + { + "content": "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.", + "author": "Buddha" + }, + { + "content": "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.", + "author": "Christopher Morley" + }, + { + "content": "You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.", + "author": "Dr. Seuss" + }, + { + "content": "No man is free who is not master of himself.", + "author": "Epictetus" + }, + { + "content": "If I know what love is, it is because of you.", + "author": "Hermann Hesse" + }, + { + "content": "The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.", + "author": "John Berry" + }, + { + "content": "What we see depends mainly on what we look for.", + "author": "John Lubbock" + }, + { + "content": "I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.", + "author": "Lin Yutang" + }, + { + "content": "To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.", + "author": "Pema Chödrön" + }, + { + "content": "Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.", + "author": "Richard Bach" + }, + { + "content": "Ever tried. 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It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.", + "author": "Eckhart Tolle" + }, + { + "content": "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.", + "author": "Edgar Allan Poe" + }, + { + "content": "If you focus on results, you will never change. 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Your life will never be the same again.", + "author": "Og Mandino" + }, + { + "content": "None knows the weight of another's burden.", + "author": "George Herbert" + }, + { + "content": "To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.", + "author": "Samuel Johnson" + }, + { + "content": "Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.", + "author": "Helen Keller" + }, + { + "content": "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.", + "author": "Alfred Korzybski" + }, + { + "content": "Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.", + "author": "Henri-Frédéric Amiel" + }, + { + "content": "The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.", + "author": "Anaïs Nin" + }, + { + "content": "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.", + "author": "Bernice Reagon" + }, + { + "content": "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.", + "author": "Carl Jung" + }, + { + "content": "A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. 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If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.", + "author": "Washington Irving" + }, + { + "content": "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.", + "author": "Thomas Edison" + }, + { + "content": "Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.", + "author": "Gordon Hinckley" + }, + { + "content": "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.", + "author": "Elizabeth Kenny" + }, + { + "content": "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.", + "author": "Mahatma Gandhi" + }, + { + "content": "Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.", + "author": "Pope Paul VI" + }, + { + "content": "Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.", + "author": "John Cleese" + }, + { + "content": "Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.", + "author": "Carrie Snow" + }, + { + "content": "Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?", + "author": "Dalai Lama" + }, + { + "content": "What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.", + "author": "Cicero" + }, + { + "content": "Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.", + "author": "Carl Jung" + }, + { + "content": "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.", + "author": "Francis of Assisi" + }, + { + "content": "To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.", + "author": "Gail Sheehy" + }, + { + "content": "Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.", + "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" + }, + { + "content": "The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.", + "author": "Laozi" + }, + { + "content": "The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.", + "author": "Paul Cézanne" + }, + { + "content": "The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.", + "author": "Pema Chödrön" + }, + { + "content": "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.", + "author": "Plato" + }, + { + "content": "Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.", + "author": "Richard Bach" + }, + { + "content": "Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. 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There is always more mystery.", + "author": "Anaïs Nin" + }, + { + "content": "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.", + "author": "Barack Obama" + }, + { + "content": "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.", + "author": "Bernard Shaw" + }, + { + "content": "Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.", + "author": "Buddha" + }, + { + "content": "A man is great by deeds, not by birth.", + "author": "Chanakya" + }, + { + "content": "Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it.", + "author": "Eckhart Tolle" + }, + { + "content": "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.", + "author": "Epictetus" + }, + { + "content": "The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.", + "author": "Henry David Thoreau" + }, + { + "content": "When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.", + "author": "Honoré de Balzac" + }, + { + "_id": "ff8I--Yqxowc", + "content": "The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.", + "author": "Isocrates" + }, + { + "content": "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.", + "author": "John Ruskin" + }, + { + "content": "It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.", + "author": "Henri Poincaré" + }, + { + "content": "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.", + "author": "Kahlil Gibran" + }, + { + "content": "Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.", + "author": "Kahlil Gibran" + }, + { + "content": "Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.", + "author": "Laozi" + }, + { + "content": "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.", + "author": "Mother Teresa" + }, + { + "content": "He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.", + "author": "Napoleon" + }, + { + "content": "A rolling stone gathers no moss.", + "author": "Publilius Syrus" + }, + { + "content": "Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.", + "author": "Ray Bradbury" + }, + { + "content": "I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?", + "author": "Richard Bach" + }, + { + "content": "Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.", + "author": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" + }, + { + "content": "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.", + "author": "William Blake" + }, + { + "content": "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.", + "author": "Zig Ziglar" + }, + { + "content": "Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. 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If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?", + "author": "Confucius" + }, + { + "content": "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.", + "author": "Demosthenes" + }, + { + "content": "The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.", + "author": "Harry Kemp" + }, + { + "content": "Science is organized knowledge. 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A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.", + "author": "Richard Bach" + }, + { + "_id": "yDgu-x-mFPpU", + "content": "If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.", + "author": "Seneca the Younger" + }, + { + "content": "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.", + "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" + }, + { + "content": "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.", + "author": "Audrey Hepburn" + }, + { + "content": "There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.", + "author": "Charles Dickens" + }, + { + "content": "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.", + "author": "Pablo Picasso" + }, + { + "content": "Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'", + "author": "Bill Bradley" + }, + { + "content": "Once you label me you negate me.", + "author": "Søren Kierkegaard" + }, + { + "content": "We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.", + "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" + }, + { + "content": "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.", + "author": "Thomas Edison" + }, + { + "content": "God always takes the simplest way.", + "author": "Albert Einstein" + }, + { + "content": "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. 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Something might be gaining on you.", + "author": "Satchel Paige" + }, + { + "content": "A short saying often contains much wisdom.", + "author": "Sophocles" + }, + { + "content": "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.", + "author": "Theodore Roosevelt" + }, + { + "content": "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.", + "author": "Confucius" + }, + { + "content": "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.", + "author": "Benjamin Franklin" + }, + { + "content": "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.", + "author": "Charles Spurgeon" + }, + { + "content": "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.", + "author": "Nelson Mandela" + }, + { + "content": "There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.", + "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt" + }, + { + "content": "Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.", + "author": "H. 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Abdul Kalam" + }, + { + "content": "Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.", + "author": "Albert Schweitzer" + }, + { + "content": "Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.", + "author": "Bruce Lee" + }, + { + "content": "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.", + "author": "Buddha" + }, + { + "content": "He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.", + "author": "Buddha" + }, + { + "content": "Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.", + "author": "Carl Jung" + }, + { + "content": "What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people.", + "author": "Daisaku Ikeda" + }, + { + "content": "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.", + "author": "Eleanor Roosevelt" + }, + { + "content": "Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.", + "author": "Epictetus" + }, + { + "content": "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.", + "author": "Epictetus" + }, + { + "content": "The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.", + "author": "Epictetus" + }, + { + "content": "I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better.", + "author": "Henry David Thoreau" + }, + { + "content": "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.", + "author": "Jane Addams" + }, + { + "content": "People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.", + "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" + }, + { + "content": "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.", + "author": "Kahlil Gibran" + }, + { + "content": "When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.", + "author": "Laozi" + }, + { + "content": "It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.", + "author": "Molière" + }, + { + "content": "If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. 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Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.", + "author": "Benjamin Franklin" + }, + { + "content": "We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.", + "author": "Marcel Proust" + }, + { + "content": "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.", + "author": "Elbert Hubbard" + }, + { + "content": "Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.", + "author": "Steve Jobs" + }, + { + "content": "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. 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These are occasions a good learner would not miss.", + "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson" + }, + { + "content": "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. 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It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.", + "author": "Henry David Thoreau" + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "I'll prepare and someday my chance will come." + }, + { + "content": "Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.", + "author": "Billy Wilder" + }, + { + "content": "Once you choose hope, anything's possible.", + "author": "Christopher Reeve" + }, + { + "content": "It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.", + "author": "Danilo Dolci" + }, + { + "content": "Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. 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A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.", + "author": "Samuel Johnson" + }, + { + "content": "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.", + "author": "James F. Byrnes" + }, + { + "content": "Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.", + "author": "Abraham Lincoln" + }, + { + "content": "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.", + "author": "Arthur Conan Doyle" + }, + { + "content": "Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.", + "author": "Benjamin Franklin" + }, + { + "content": "All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.", + "author": "Bruce Lee" + }, + { + "content": "Success is getting what you want. 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This is the only way that you will be truly rich.", + "author": "Muhammad Ali" + }, + { + "_id": "-ScvfiXp-jo-", + "content": "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.", + "author": "Naguib Mahfouz" + }, + { + "content": "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.", + "author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr." + }, + { + "content": "Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. 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No one can do it for me.", + "author": "Carol Burnett" + }, + { + "content": "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove oneself a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.", + "author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne" + }, + { + "content": "Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! 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To not dare is to lose oneself.", + "author": "Søren Kierkegaard" + }, + { + "content": "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.", + "author": "Thomas Jefferson" + }, + { + "content": "You always succeed in producing a result.", + "author": "Tony Robbins" + }, + { + "content": "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.", + "author": "Voltaire" + }, + { + "content": "No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.", + "author": "W. Clement Stone" + }, + { + "content": "It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.", + "author": "Thomas Hobbes" + }, + { + "content": "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?", + "author": "George Eliot" + }, + { + "content": "I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.", + "author": "Victoria Osteen" + }, + { + "content": "No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise.", + "author": "Barack Obama" + }, + { + "content": "Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.", + "author": "Josh Billings" + }, + { + "content": "First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.", + "author": "Douglas Adams" + }, + { + "content": "I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.", + "author": "Chuck Swindoll" + }, + { + "content": "I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.", + "author": "Thomas Jefferson" + }, + { + "content": "The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.", + "author": "Abraham Lincoln" + }, + { + "content": "Well begun is half done.", + "author": "Aristotle" + }, + { + "content": "No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.", + "author": "Brendan Behan" + }, + { + "content": "The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.", + "author": "Bruce Lee" + }, + { + "content": "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.", + "author": "Buddha" + }, + { + "content": "However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?", + "author": "Buddha" + }, + { + "content": "Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.", + "author": "Doris Day" + }, + { + "content": "A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.", + "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" + }, + { + "content": "Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.", + "author": "James M. 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Great necessities call out great virtues.", + "author": "Abigail Adams" + }, + { + "content": "Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.", + "author": "Christopher Reeve" + }, + { + "content": "All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.", + "author": "Ella Wheeler Wilcox" + }, + { + "content": "A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.", + "author": "Henry David Thoreau" + }, + { + "content": "The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. 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Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.", + "author": "Harriet Tubman" + }, + { + "content": "To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.", + "author": "Henri Bergson" + }, + { + "content": "Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.", + "author": "Karl Menninger" + }, + { + "content": "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.", + "author": "Kenji Miyazawa" + }, + { + "content": "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. 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Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.", + "author": "Judy Collins" + }, + { + "content": "The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.", + "author": "William Blake" + }, + { + "content": "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.", + "author": "Epicurus" + }, + { + "content": "If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.", + "author": "Holly Near" + }, + { + "content": "We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. 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You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." + }, + { + "author": "Winston Churchill", + "content": "I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "The ballot is stronger than the bullet." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." + }, + { + "author": "Abraham Lincoln", + "content": "How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? 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Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win." + }, + { + "author": "Knute Rockne", + "content": "One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it." + }, + { + "author": "William James", + "content": "Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." + }, + { + "author": "Hank Aaron", + "content": "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." + }, + { + "author": "Jim Bouton", + "content": "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." + }, + { + "author": "Rogers Hornsby", + "content": "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. 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If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." + }, + { + "author": "Edward Gibbon", + "content": "Our work is the presentation of our capabilities." + }, + { + "author": "Warren Bennis", + "content": "Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work." + }, + { + "author": "Elon Musk", + "content": "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." + }, + { + "author": "Ralph Marston", + "content": "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." + }, + { + "author": "H. G. Wells", + "content": "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." + }, + { + "author": "George S. Patton", + "content": "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." + }, + { + "author": "Ken Venturi", + "content": "I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be." + }, + { + "author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", + "content": "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." + }, + { + "author": "W. Clement Stone", + "content": "Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." + }, + { + "author": "Sam Levenson", + "content": "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." + }, + { + "author": "Benjamin Disraeli", + "content": "Never complain and never explain." + }, + { + "author": "Robert Schuller", + "content": "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." + }, + { + "author": "John F. Kennedy", + "content": "Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." + }, + { + "author": "Amelia Earhart", + "content": "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." + }, + { + "author": "Pauline Kael", + "content": "Where there is a will, there is a way. 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"accent_light": "#FF772b90d9", - "background": "#FF272727", - "background_dark": "#FF282c37", - "background_light": "#FF282c37", - "should_tint_statusbar": true, - "should_tint_navbar": true - }, - { - "theme_name": "Light", - "base_theme": "LIGHT", - "primary": "#FFFFFF", - "primary_dark": "#FFFFFFFF", - "primary_light": "#FFd9e1e8", - "accent": "#FF2b90d9", - "accent_dark": "#FF1b80c9", - "accent_light": "#FF772b90d9", - "background": "#FFFFFFFF", - "background_dark": "#FFFFFFFF", - "background_light": "#FFFFFFFF", - "should_tint_statusbar": true, - "should_tint_navbar": true - }, - { - "theme_name": "Black", - "base_theme": "DARK", - "primary": "#FF000000", - "primary_dark": "#FF000000", - "primary_light": "#FF000000", - "accent": "#FF606984", - "accent_dark": "#FF606984", - "accent_light": "#FF606984", - "background": "#FF000000", - "background_dark": "#FF000000", - "background_light": "#FF000000", - "should_tint_statusbar": true, - "should_tint_navbar": true - } -] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/client/entities/app/Quotes.java b/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/client/entities/app/Quotes.java new file mode 100644 index 00000000..95c82ff1 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/client/entities/app/Quotes.java @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +package app.fedilab.android.client.entities.app; +/* Copyright 2022 Thomas Schneider + * + * This file is a part of Fedilab + * + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the + * GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the + * License, or (at your option) any later version. + * + * Fedilab is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even + * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General + * Public License for more details. + * + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Fedilab; if not, + * see . */ + +import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName; + +import java.io.Serializable; +import java.util.List; + + +public class Quotes implements Serializable { + + @SerializedName("quotes") + public List quotes; + + public static class Quote implements Serializable { + @SerializedName("author") + public String author; + @SerializedName("content") + public String content; + } +} diff --git a/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/ui/drawer/ComposeAdapter.java b/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/ui/drawer/ComposeAdapter.java index 9fdeb620..88ae8424 100644 --- a/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/ui/drawer/ComposeAdapter.java +++ b/app/src/main/java/app/fedilab/android/ui/drawer/ComposeAdapter.java @@ -71,12 +71,17 @@ import com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.DiskCacheStrategy; import com.bumptech.glide.request.RequestOptions; import com.bumptech.glide.request.target.CustomTarget; import com.bumptech.glide.request.transition.Transition; +import com.google.gson.Gson; +import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken; import com.vanniktech.emoji.EmojiManager; import com.vanniktech.emoji.EmojiPopup; import com.vanniktech.emoji.one.EmojiOneProvider; import java.io.File; +import java.io.IOException; +import java.io.InputStream; import java.lang.ref.WeakReference; +import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets; import java.text.Normalizer; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.ArrayList; @@ -86,6 +91,7 @@ import java.util.LinkedHashMap; import java.util.List; import java.util.Locale; import java.util.Objects; +import java.util.Random; import java.util.Set; import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; @@ -102,6 +108,7 @@ import app.fedilab.android.client.entities.api.Status; import app.fedilab.android.client.entities.api.Tag; import app.fedilab.android.client.entities.app.BaseAccount; import app.fedilab.android.client.entities.app.Languages; +import app.fedilab.android.client.entities.app.Quotes; import app.fedilab.android.client.entities.app.StatusDraft; import app.fedilab.android.databinding.ComposeAttachmentItemBinding; import app.fedilab.android.databinding.ComposePollBinding; @@ -545,6 +552,7 @@ public class ComposeAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter { + holder.binding.content.setText(newContent[0]); + statusList.get(holder.getBindingAdapterPosition()).text = newContent[0]; + holder.binding.content.setSelection(holder.binding.content.getText().length()); + autocomplete = false; + updateCharacterCount(holder); + }; + mainHandler.post(myRunnable); + } else if (s.toString().contains(fedilabQuoteTrigger)) { + newContent[0] = s.toString().replaceAll(fedilabQuoteTrigger, "").trim(); + List mentions = new ArrayList<>(); + String mentionPattern = "@[a-z0-9_]+(@[a-z0-9.\\-]+[a-z0-9]+)?"; + final Pattern mPattern = Pattern.compile(mentionPattern, Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE); + Matcher matcherMentions = mPattern.matcher(newContent[0]); + while (matcherMentions.find()) { + mentions.add(matcherMentions.group()); + } + for (String mention : mentions) { + newContent[0] = newContent[0].replace(mention, ""); + } + + InputStream is; + newContent[0] = ""; + if (mentions.size() > 0) { + for (String mention : mentions) { + newContent[0] += mention + " "; + } + } + try { + is = context.getAssets().open("quotes/famous.json"); + int size; + size = is.available(); + byte[] buffer = new byte[size]; + //noinspection ResultOfMethodCallIgnored + is.read(buffer); + is.close(); + String json = new String(buffer, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); + Gson gson = new Gson(); + List quotes = gson.fromJson(json, new TypeToken>() { + }.getType()); + if (quotes != null && quotes.size() > 0) { + final int random = new Random().nextInt(quotes.size()); + Quotes.Quote quote = quotes.get(random); + newContent[0] += quote.content + "\n- " + quote.author; + } + } catch (IOException e) { + e.printStackTrace(); + } + + Handler mainHandler = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()); + Runnable myRunnable = () -> { holder.binding.content.setText(newContent[0]); statusList.get(holder.getBindingAdapterPosition()).text = newContent[0]; @@ -649,6 +708,15 @@ public class ComposeAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter