--- fortune-mod-1.99.1.orig/datfiles/off/unrotated/politics
+++ fortune-mod-1.99.1/datfiles/off/unrotated/politics
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@
A new taste had been acquired and a new appetite began to grow. The time
had long since arrived to crush the technical intelligentsia, which had
come to regard itself as too irreplaceable and had not gotten used to
-catching instructions on the wing. In other words, we never did trust
+catching instructions on the wing. In other words, we never did trust
the engineers - and from the very first years of the Revolution we saw to
-it that those lackeys and servants of former capitalist bosses were kept
+it that those lackeys and servants of former capitalist bosses were kept
in line by healthy suspicion and surveillance by the workers.
-- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago"
%
@@ -161,8 +161,8 @@
R: "We take tanks."
%
An American, a Frenchman, and a Vietnamese refugee had a discussion about
-the happiness of life.
- "To me, happiness is returning home on a Monday evening, having a
+the happiness of life.
+ "To me, happiness is returning home on a Monday evening, having a
wonderful dinner prepared by my wife, then slouching on the sofa watching
Monday Night Football," the American said.
"You Americans are not romantic at all", the French injected, "Sharing
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
policemen ready to handcuff you. One of them says to you, 'Mr. Nguyen Van
Binh, you are under arrest for your anti-revolutionary activities. You are
being sent to the re-educational camp tonight!' Sweating profusely and
-shaking uncontrollably, you reply to them, 'Comrades, Mr. Nguyen Van Binh
+shaking uncontrollably, you reply to them, 'Comrades, Mr. Nguyen Van Binh
lives next door.' That moment is happiness in life, my friends.
%
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping that it will eat him last.
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
%
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen
has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government.
- -- J.P. Morgan [Speaking, no doubt, on behalf of his highly-
+ -- J. P. Morgan [Speaking, no doubt, on behalf of his highly-
paid tax lawyers]
%
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think,
@@ -364,11 +364,11 @@
Communist politician is through, he is through.
%
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
- -- H.L. Mencken
+ -- H. L. Mencken
%
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and
deserve to get it good and hard.
- -- H.L. Mencken, "Little Book in C major", 1916
+ -- H. L. Mencken, "Little Book in C major", 1916
%
Democrats buy most of the books that have been banned somewhere.
Republicans form censorship committees and read them as a group.
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
%
Going into politics is as fatal to a gentleman as going into a bordello
is fatal to a virgin.
- -- H.L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe"
+ -- H. L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe"
%
Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with
tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerers of human
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@
%
I don't understand what all the fuss was about in Los Angeles. It's not like
we looted Brooks Brothers when Oliver North got off.
- -- P.J. O'Rourke
+ -- P. J. O'Rourke
%
I go the way that Providence dictates.
-- Adolf Hitler
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@
-- George McGovern
%
I'm never through with a girl until I've had her three ways.
- -- J.F. Kennedy
+ -- J. F. Kennedy
%
I'm not a lovable man.
-- Richard Nixon.
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@
%
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be
thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- -- H.L. Mencken
+ -- H. L. Mencken
%
In what can only be described as a surprise move, God has officially
announced His candidacy for the U.S. presidency. During His press conference
@@ -893,7 +893,7 @@
%
Jimmy Carter, Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, Joseph Biden and Michael Dukakis were
on a cruise down the Potomac when the ship struck a rock and began to sink.
- "Gentlemen," Carter said, "as good Christians, we should let the
+ "Gentlemen," Carter said, "as good Christians, we should let the
women and children aboard the lifeboats first."
"Fuck the women!" Kennedy shouted.
"Do we have time?" Hart asked.
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@
Long ago I proposed that unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency
be quietly hanged, as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
The sight of their grief must have a very evil effect upon the young.
- -- H.L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe"
+ -- H. L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe"
%
Mayor Vincent J. `Buddy' Cianci on the ACLU's suit to have a city
nativity scene removed:
@@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@
%
The most recent attempt to revive the moribund campus left, a national
conference held at Rutgers University February 5-7, ended when the
-participants decided that they were too racist to found a new national
+participants decided that they were too racist to found a new national
organization.
The stated goal of the conference was the formation of a national
organization that would "give expression to a shared consciousness." The
@@ -1768,7 +1768,7 @@
ETEHFOR'AN, DEHRATEE, OTAGEH SHOMA MIKRASTAM KHE
DO HAFTAEH BA BODANEH SHEEREEL TEEGZ.
- Truly, I would rather be a hostage to your greatly esteemed
+ Truly, I would rather be a hostage to your greatly esteemed
self than spend a fortnight upon the person of Cheryl Tiegs.
%
Vice-President Hubert Humphrey's loquacity is legendary, and Barry
@@ -1859,7 +1859,7 @@
-- Ronald Reagan
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We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square.
- -- S.I. Hayakawa
+ -- S. I. Hayakawa
%
WE'RE GOING TO THROW THE MX AWAY AFTER WE BUILD IT. The MX is really
[Don't tell anybody!] just a "bargaining chip" in the nuclear-arms-