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// Javascript random quote generator by Brian Timmins, Copyright 2006
// Released under Ordinary GPL. This notice must not be deleted

// Create a random number in the appropriate range
var RandNum=Math.floor(Math.random()*95);

// Quote Array
// The quote itself plus any html MUST be all on the same line
// Don't forget to de-limit with a backslash any possible programming character
// I have left my own CSS tags in to show that you may use any html you wish
// div.c99 { text-align:right; font-size: 8pt; font-style: italic; }
// b.c24 { font-size: 10pt; color: yellow; }
var quote = new Array();
  quote[0]="<b>Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Gandalf: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[1]="<b>All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, About Aragorn: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[2]="<b>All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, The The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[3]="<b>But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Sam: The Return of the King</div>"
  quote[4]="<b>Courage is found in unlikely places</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[5]="<b>Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien</div>"
  quote[6]="<b>Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Gimli: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[7]="<b>Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien</div>"
  quote[8]="<b>For though I do not ask for aid, we need it</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Boromir: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[9]="<b>He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Elrond: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[10]="<b>He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom</b><br><div class=\"c99\">J. R.R. Tolkien, Gandalf: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[11]="<b>Heroes come in many forms. Not all of them fighters</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Gemmell, Sword in the Storm</div>"
  quote[12]="<b>His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Narrator: The Hobbit</div>"
  quote[13]="<b>I can say \"goodbye\", \"how are you\" and \"watch where you're going, you shit-eating barbarian pig.\" Will that do for now?</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Gemmell, Sword in the Storm</div>"
  quote[14]="<b>I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Bilbo: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[15]="<b>I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Aragorn: The Return of the King</div>"
  quote[16]="<b>I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Faramir to Eowyn: The The Return of the King</div>"
  quote[17]="<b>I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Gemmell, White Wolf</div>"
  quote[18]="<b>I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, The Lost Road</div>"
  quote[19]="<b>If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Gemmell</div>"
  quote[20]="<b>It heals my heart, to see thee now in bliss</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Elessar to Eowyn: The Return of the King</div>"
  quote[21]="<b>It was not wise for humans to meddle in the affairs of gods. Especially gods of death and mischief</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Gemmell, Sword in the Storm</div>"
  quote[22]="<b>It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door, he used to say. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to</b><br><div class=\"c99\">J.R.R. Tolkien</div>"
  quote[23]="<b>It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Sam: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[24]="<b>It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien</div>"
  quote[25]="<b>Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Gandalf: The Two Towers</div>"
  quote[26]="<b>Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Gemmell</div>"
  quote[27]="<b>Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works.</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, on Critics of \"The Lord Of The Rings\"</div>"
  quote[28]="<b>The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last... The great battle of our time</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Gandalf: The The Return of the King</div>"
  quote[29]="<b>The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn</b><br><div class=\"c99\">J.R.R. Tolkien, Gandalf: The Return of the King</div>"
  quote[30]="<b>The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Aragorn: The Return of the King</div>"
  quote[31]="<b>The treacherous are ever distrustful</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Gandalf on Saruman: The Two Towers</div>"
  quote[32]="<b>The truth? What the hell is the truth? We're born, we live and we die. Everything else is just shades of opinion</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Gemmell, Clem Steiner: Bloodstone</div>"
  quote[33]="<b>The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, The Two Towers</div>"
  quote[34]="<b>The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Galadriel: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[35]="<b>The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[36]="<b>Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Mandos: The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor</div>"
  quote[37]="<b>Their plans were improved with the best advice</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Narrator: The Hobbit</div>"
  quote[38]="<b>There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien</div>"
  quote[39]="<b>Thought is faster than arrows, and truth is sharper than blades</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Gemmell</div>"
  quote[40]="<b>Valour needs first strength, then a weapon</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[41]="<b>What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Gandalf on firs meeting Bilbo: The Hobbit</div>"
  quote[42]="<b>With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Tolkien, Aragorn: The Fellowship of the Ring</div>"
  quote[42]="<b>\"...modeling the incoherent and vertiginous matter of which dreams are composed was the most difficult task a man could undertake...\" And on another page it said, \"...the dreams of men belong to God...\" He could not bear it</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Covenant: ruminating at home after \"The Illearth War\"</div>"
  quote[43]="<b>\"Do you forget your task? You must reach the Lords - must! Drool must pay for this Desecration! Go! I cannot give you much time!\" Shouting, \"Melenkurion abatha!\" he whirled and jumped into the thick of the fray, felling ur-viles with his mighty fists</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Forestal to Covenant: \"Lord Foul's Bane\"</div>"
  quote[44]="<b>\"Message-bearers may be friends or foes,\" Bannor replied. \"Perhaps you are a servent of Corruption. The safety of the Lords is in our care. The Bloodguard will not permit you to endanger them. We will be sure of you before we allow you to move freely.\"</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Bloodguard to Covenant \"Lord Foul's Bane\"</div>"
  quote[45]="<b>\"This is all just a game for you! Mental tricks. Excuses. You're a leper! A moral leper! You're too selfish to love anyone but yourself. You have the power for everything, and you won't use it. You just turned your back on her when she needed you. You - despicable leper! Leper!\"</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Hile Troy to Covenant \"The Illearth War\"</div>"
  quote[46]="<b>\"Without?\" Mhoram's gaze glittered dangerously. And from behind him Foamfollower breathed in ashtonishment, \"Life without beauty? Ah, my friend! How do you resist despair?\"</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[47]="<b>And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[48]="<b>Anything beats an expensive stack of paper</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[49]="<b>As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[50]="<b>Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[51]="<b>Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[52]="<b>But Covenant was not playing a mental game. He was a leper. He was fighting for his life. Unbelief was his only defense in the Land, his only way to control the intensity, the potential suicide, of his response to the Land</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, The Illearth War</div>"
  quote[53]="<b>But Neil Gaiman may be the best short story writer alive; he's not just comic books</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[54]="<b>But the space defense initiative drove the USSR bankrupt, and it originated at my house in Tarzana</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[55]="<b>But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[56]="<b>Everyone I know backed Rockwell's Delta Clipper, one of the designs that lost out to Venturestar</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[57]="<b>Everything starts as somebody's daydream</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[58]="<b>Foamfollower's question caught him wandering, \"Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?\" Absently, he replied, \"I was, once.\" \"And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in three words as any you might have told me\"</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Foamfolower to Covenant: \"Lord Foul's Bane\"</div>"
  quote[59]="<b>He released Covenant's wrist and stepped back. \"My friend, this is not on your head. The burden is ours, and we bear it to the end. Forgive me.\"</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[60]="<b>His name sounded ungainly in her mouth. \"It is a strange name--a strange name to match your strange apparel. Thomas Covenant.\" She inclined her head in a slow bow to him</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[61]="<b>I do not believe they've run out of surprises</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[62]="<b>I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[63]="<b>I don't have a strong interest in history</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[64]="<b>I don't run ahead of science. I follow as close as I can, and I peer over their shoulders while the scientists are watching their feet</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[65]="<b>I love superconductors</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[66]="<b>I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[67]="<b>I'd like to see superconductors get cheaper and closer to ambient temperature. There are engineering games you could play with that</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[68]="<b>I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[69]="<b>I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[70]="<b>I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[71]="<b>I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[72]="<b>I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[73]="<b>In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[74]="<b>In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[75]="<b>Look at the rest of my novels, and every one of them covers a few months or a year, and the crisis is over by the time that's done</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[76]="<b>My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[77]="<b>Now I can write about what hurts me, and one of the results is, my characters have been getting sick a lot lately!</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[78]="<b>On every graph of human activity-energy consumption, rate of creation of garbage, population, and a thousand others-the curves rise asymptotically</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[79]="<b>Rage and hate strained his features as if his skull were splitting. \"Raver!\" he yelled. \"Ravisher!\" He approached swinging his blade</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[80]="<b>Ripped flesh hung over his brows like a foilage of pain, and through the wound, drops of new blood seeped as if red thoughts were making their way from a crack in his skull</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[81]="<b>Say to the Council of the Lords, and to the High Lord Prothall son of Dwillian, that the uttermost limit of their span of days upon the Land is seven times seven years from this present time</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul the Despiser to Covenant: \"Lord Foul's Bane\"</div>"
  quote[82]="<b>SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[83]="<b>She stepped closer and thrust the mud toward him. He thought he could see tiny gleams of gold in it. He stared at it blankly, shocked by the idea of putting mud in his cuts</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[84]="<b>Stephen King is the scariest; any writer knows how good he is after reading Misery</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[85]="<b>The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[86]="<b>The next threshold date has no number, and it's breathing on the back of your ear</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[87]="<b>The song made Covenant quiver, as if it concealed a spectre which he should have been able to recognize. But Atiaran's voice entralled him. No instruments aided her singing, but before she had finished her first line, he knew that she did not need them</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[88]="<b>Then, in unison, the Heers uttered their verdict with all the finality of a death sentence. \"The High Wood rejects him. He is a wrong in the Land.\"</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[89]="<b>Thomas Covenant's stride went on, as unfaltering as clockwork that had been wound to the hilt for just this purpose. But to himself he responded, Ashamed? Ashamed? His face contorted in a wild grimace. Beware! Outcast, unclean!</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane</div>"
  quote[90]="<b>Treat your life like something to be sculpted</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[91]="<b>We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[92]="<b>We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[93]="<b>We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Niven</div>"
  quote[94]="<b>When Troy paused to gather himself for another assult, Covenant said weakly \"Unbelief has got nothing to do with it. She was my daughter.\"</b><br><div class=\"c99\">Donaldson, The Illearth War</div>"

// Call the function
function randomQuote(){
     document.write(quote[RandNum]);
}


// End -->
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