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Terminal Quote- A first draft of my own inspirational startup quotes
PHRASES=(
"A leader leads by example not by force. \n- Sun Tzu"
"All warfare is based on deception. \n- Sun Tzu"
"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.\n- Sun Tzu"
"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperilled in every single battle.\n- Sun Tzu"
"He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.\n- Sun Tzu"
"Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.\n- Sun Tzu"
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.\n- Epictetus"
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.\n- Epictetus"
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.\n- Epictetus"
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.\n- Epictetus"
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.\n- Epictetus"
"To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.\n- Epictetus"
"If you wish to be a writer, write.\n- Epictetus"
"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.\n- Epictetus"
"I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.\n- Alexander the Great"
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.\n-Winston Churchill"
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.\n-Winston Churchill"
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print "$fg[red]$PHRASES[$RANDOM%$#PHRASES+1]" >> $TTY
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