haiku/data/etc/fortunes/Fortunes

A day for firm decisions!!!!!  Or is it?
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A few hours grace before the madness begins again.
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A gift of a flower will soon be made to you.
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A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon.

Buy the negatives at any price.
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A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you.
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A visit to a fresh place will bring strange work.
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A visit to a strange place will bring fresh work.
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A vivid and creative mind characterizes you.
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Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
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Accent on helpful side of your nature.  Drain the moat.
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Advancement in position.
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After your lover has gone you will still have PEANUT BUTTER!
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Afternoon very favorable for romance.  Try a single person for a change.
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Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth.
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All the troubles you have will pass away very quickly.
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Among the lucky, you are the chosen one.
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An avocado-tone refrigerator would look good on your resume.
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An exotic journey in downtown Newark is in your future.
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Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
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Are you a turtle?
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Are you ever going to do the dishes?  Or will you change your major to biology?
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Are you making all this up as you go along?
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Are you sure the back door is locked?
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Artistic ventures highlighted.  Rob a museum.
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Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance.
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Avoid gunfire in the bathroom tonight.
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Avoid reality at all costs.
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Bank error in your favor.  Collect $200.
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Be careful!  Is it classified?
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Be careful!  UGLY strikes 9 out of 10!
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Be cautious in your daily affairs.
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Be cheerful while you are alive.
		-- Phathotep, 24th Century B.C.
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Be different: conform.
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Be free and open and breezy!  Enjoy!  Things won't get any better so get used to it.
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Be security conscious -- National defense is at stake.
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Beauty and harmony are as necessary to you as the very breath of life.
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Best of all is never to have been born.  Second best is to die soon.
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Better hope the life-inspector doesn't come around while you have your life in such a mess.
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Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie.
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Beware of a tall black man with one blond shoe.
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Beware of a tall blond man with one black shoe.
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Beware of Bigfoot!
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Beware of low-flying butterflies.
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Beware the one behind you.
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Blow it out your ear.
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Break into jail and claim police brutality.
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Bridge ahead.  Pay troll.
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Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
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Caution: Keep out of reach of children.
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Celebrate Hannibal Day this year.  Take an elephant to lunch.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Cheer Up!  Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
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Chess tonight.
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Chicken Little only has to be right once.
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Chicken Little was right.
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Cold hands, no gloves.
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Communicate!  It can't make things any worse.
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Courage is your greatest present need.
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Day of inquiry.  You will be subpoenaed.
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Do not overtax your powers.
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Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight.
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Do nothing unless you must, and when you must act -- hesitate.
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Do something unusual today.  Pay a bill.
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Do what comes naturally.  Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum.
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Domestic happiness and faithful friends.
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Don't feed the bats tonight.
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Don't get stuck in a closet -- wear yourself out.
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Don't get to bragging.
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Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while.
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Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
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Don't kiss an elephant on the lips today.
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Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little to be let out alone.
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Don't look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.
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Don't look now, but the man in the moon is laughing at you.
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Don't look now, but there is a multi-legged creature on your shoulder.
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Don't plan any hasty moves.  You'll be evicted soon anyway.
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Don't read any sky-writing for the next two weeks.
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Don't read everything you believe.
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Don't relax!  It's only your tension that's holding you together.
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Don't tell any big lies today.  Small ones can be just as effective.
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Don't worry so loud, your roommate can't think.
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Don't Worry, Be Happy.
		-- Meher Baba
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Don't worry.  Life's too long.
		-- Vincent Sardi, Jr.
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Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?
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Don't you wish you had more energy... or less ambition?
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Everything that you know is wrong, but you can be straightened out.
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Everything will be just tickety-boo today.
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Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator.
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Excellent day to have a rotten day.
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Excellent time to become a missing person.
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Executive ability is prominent in your make-up.
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Exercise caution in your daily affairs.
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Expect a letter from a friend who will ask a favor of you.
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Expect the worst, it's the least you can do.
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Fine day for friends.
So-so day for you.
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Fine day to work off excess energy.  Steal something heavy.
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Fortune: You will be attacked next Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. by six samurai sword-wielding purple fish glued to Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

Oh, and have a nice day!
		-- Bryce Nesbitt '84
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Future looks spotty.  You will spill soup in late evening.
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Generosity and perfection are your everlasting goals.
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Give him an evasive answer.
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Give thought to your reputation.  Consider changing name and moving to a new town.
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Give your very best today.  Heaven knows it's little enough.
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Go to a movie tonight.  Darkness becomes you.
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Good day for a change of scene.  Repaper the bedroom wall.
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Good day for overcoming obstacles.  Try a steeplechase.
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Good day to deal with people in high places; particularly lonely stewardesses.
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Good day to let down old friends who need help.
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Good news from afar can bring you a welcome visitor.
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Good news.  Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.
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Good night to spend with family, but avoid arguments with your mate's
new lover.
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Green light in A.M. for new projects.  Red light in P.M. for traffic tickets.
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Hope that the day after you die is a nice day.
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If you can read this, you're too close.
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If you learn one useless thing every day, in a single year you'll learn 365 useless things.
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If you sow your wild oats, hope for a crop failure.
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If you stand on your head, you will get footprints in your hair.
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If you think last Tuesday was a drag, wait till you see what happens tomorrow!
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If your life was a horse, you'd have to shoot it.
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In the stairway of life, you'd best take the elevator.
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Increased knowledge will help you now.  Have mate's phone bugged.
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Is that really YOU that is reading this?
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Is this really happening?
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It is so very hard to be an 
on-your-own-take-care-of-yourself-because-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you
grown-up.
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It may or may not be worthwhile, but it still has to be done.
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It was all so different before everything changed.
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It's a very UNlucky week in which to be took dead.
		-- Churchy La Femme
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It's all in the mind, ya know.
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It's lucky you're going so slowly, because you're going in the wrong direction.
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Just because the message may never be received does not mean it is not worth sending.
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Just to have it is enough.
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Keep emotionally active.  Cater to your favorite neurosis.
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Keep it short for pithy sake.
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Lady Luck brings added income today.  Lady friend takes it away tonight.
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Learn to pause -- or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.
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Let me put it this way: today is going to be a learning experience.
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Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.
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"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
		-- Marvin, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Live in a world of your own, but always welcome visitors.
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Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
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Long life is in store for you.
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Look afar and see the end from the beginning.
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Love is in the offing.  Be affectionate to one who adores you.
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Make a wish, it might come true.
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Many changes of mind and mood; do not hesitate too long.
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Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.
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Never commit yourself!  Let someone else commit you.
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Never give an inch!
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Never look up when dragons fly overhead.
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Never reveal your best argument.
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Next Friday will not be your lucky day.  As a matter of fact, you don't have a lucky day this year.
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Obviously the only rational solution to your problem is suicide.
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Of course you have a purpose -- to find a purpose.
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People are beginning to notice you.  Try dressing before you leave the house.
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Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things.
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Questionable day.

Ask somebody something.
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Reply hazy, ask again later.
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Save energy: be apathetic.
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Ships are safe in harbor, but they were never meant to stay there.
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Slow day.  Practice crawling.
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Snow Day -- stay home.
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So this it it.  We're going to die.
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So you're back... about time...
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Someone is speaking well of you.
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Someone is speaking well of you.

How unusual!
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Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow.
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Stay away from flying saucers today.
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Stay away from hurricanes for a while.
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Stay the curse.
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That secret you've been guarding, isn't.
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The time is right to make new friends.
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The whole world is a tuxedo and you are a pair of brown shoes.
		-- George Gobel
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There is a 20% chance of tomorrow.
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There is a fly on your nose.
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There was a phone call for you.
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There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.
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Things will be bright in P.M.  A cop will shine a light in your face.
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Think twice before speaking, but don't say "think think click click".
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This life is yours.  Some of it was given to you; the rest, you made yourself.
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This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it.
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Time to be aggressive.  Go after a tattooed Virgo.
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Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.
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Today is the first day of the rest of the mess.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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Today is the last day of your life so far.
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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Today is what happened to yesterday.
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Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
		-- Hunter S. Thompson
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Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest.
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Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately, it can still be changed today.
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Tomorrow, you can be anywhere.
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Tonight you will pay the wages of sin; Don't forget to leave a tip.
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Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
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Truth will out this morning.  (Which may really mess things up.)
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Try the Moo Shu Pork.  It is especially good today.
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Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance.
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Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances.
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Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
		-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you.
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Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week.
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Tuesday is the Wednesday of the rest of your life.
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What happened last night can happen again.
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While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and are making another attack.
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Write yourself a threatening letter and pen a defiant reply.
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You are a bundle of energy, always on the go.
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
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You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are.
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You are always busy.
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You are as I am with You.
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You are capable of planning your future.
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You are confused; but this is your normal state.
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You are deeply attached to your friends and acquaintances.
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You are destined to become the commandant of the fighting men of the department of transportation.
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You are dishonest, but never to the point of hurting a friend.
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You are fairminded, just and loving.
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You are farsighted, a good planner, an ardent lover, and a faithful friend.
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You are fighting for survival in your own sweet and gentle way.
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You are going to have a new love affair.
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You are magnetic in your bearing.
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You are not dead yet.  But watch for further reports.
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You are number 6!  Who is number one?
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
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You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward.  Therefore you have few friends.
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You are sick, twisted and perverted.  I like that in a person.
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You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
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You are standing on my toes.
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You are taking yourself far too seriously.
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You are the only person to ever get this message.
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You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading
this sort of trash.
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You attempt things that you do not even plan because of your extreme stupidity.
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You can create your own opportunities this week.  Blackmail a senior executive.
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You can do very well in speculation where land or anything to do with dirt is concerned.
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You can rent this space for only $5 a week.
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You could live a better life, if you had a better mind and a better body.
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You definitely intend to start living sometime soon.
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You dialed 5483.
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You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy.
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You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one.
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You enjoy the company of other people.
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You feel a whole lot more like you do now than you did when you used to.
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You fill a much-needed gap.
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You get along very well with everyone except animals and people.
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You had some happiness once, but your parents moved away, and you had to leave it behind.
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You have a deep appreciation of the arts and music.
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You have a deep interest in all that is artistic.
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You have a reputation for being thoroughly reliable and trustworthy. 
A pity that it's totally undeserved.
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You have a strong appeal for members of the opposite sex.
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You have a strong appeal for members of your own sex.
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You have a strong desire for a home and your family interests come first.
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You have a truly strong individuality.
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You have a will that can be influenced by all with whom you come in contact.
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You have an ability to sense and know higher truth.
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You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself.
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You have an unusual equipment for success.  Be sure to use it properly.
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You have an unusual magnetic personality.  Don't walk too close to metal objects which are not fastened down.
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You have an unusual understanding of the problems of human relationships.
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You have been selected for a secret mission.
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You have Egyptian flu: you're going to be a mummy.
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You have had a long-term stimulation relative to business.
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You have literary talent that you should take pains to develop.
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You have many friends and very few living enemies.
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You have no real enemies.
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You have taken yourself too seriously.
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You have the body of a 19 year old.  Please return it before it gets wrinkled.
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You have the capacity to learn from mistakes.  You'll learn a lot today.
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You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact.
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You learn to write as if to someone else because NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BE "SOMEONE ELSE."
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You like to form new friendships and make new acquaintances.
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You look like a million dollars.  All green and wrinkled.
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You look tired.
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You love peace.
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You love your home and want it to be beautiful.
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You may be gone tomorrow, but that doesn't mean that you weren't here today.
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You may be infinitely smaller than some things, but you're infinitely larger than others.
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You may be recognized soon.  Hide.
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You may get an opportunity for advancement today.  Watch it!
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You may worry about your hair-do today, but tomorrow much peanut butter will be sold.
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You need more time; and you probably always will.
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You need no longer worry about the future.  This time tomorrow you'll be dead.
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You never hesitate to tackle the most difficult problems.
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You never know how many friends you have until you rent a house on the beach.
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You now have Asian Flu.
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You own a dog, but you can only feed a cat.
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You plan things that you do not even attempt because of your extreme caution.
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You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained.
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You prefer the company of the opposite sex, but are well liked by your own.
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You recoil from the crude; you tend naturally toward the exquisite.
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You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider.
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You shall be rewarded for a dastardly deed.
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You should emulate your heros, but don't carry it too far.  Especially
if they are dead.
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You should go home.
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You single-handedly fought your way into this hopeless mess.
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You teach best what you most need to learn.
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You too can wear a nose mitten.
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You two ought to be more careful--your love could drag on for years and years.
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You will always get the greatest recognition for the job you least like.
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You will always have good luck in your personal affairs.
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You will attract cultured and artistic people to your home.
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You will be a winner today.  Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
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You will be advanced socially, without any special effort on your part.
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You will be aided greatly by a person whom you thought to be unimportant.
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You will be attacked by a beast who has the body of a wolf, the tail of a lion, and the face of Donald Duck.
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You will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service.
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You will be awarded a medal for disregarding safety in saving someone.
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You will be awarded some great honor.
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You will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize... posthumously.
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You will be called upon to help a friend in trouble.
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You will be dead within a year.
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You will be divorced within a year.
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You will be given a post of trust and responsibility.
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You will be held hostage by a radical group.
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You will be honored for contributing your time and skill to a worthy cause.
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You will be imprisoned for contributing your time and skill to a bank robbery.
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You will be married within a year, and divorced within two.
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You will be married within a year.
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You will be misunderstood by everyone.
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You will be recognized and honored as a community leader.
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You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier.
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You will be run over by a beer truck.
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You will be run over by a bus.
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You will be singled out for promotion in your work.
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You will be successful in love.
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You will be surprised by a loud noise.
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You will be surrounded by luxury.
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You will be the last person to buy a Chrysler.
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You will be the victim of a bizarre joke.
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You will be Told about it Tomorrow.  Go Home and Prepare Thyself.
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You will be traveling and coming into a fortune.
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You will be winged by an anti-aircraft battery.
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You will become rich and famous unless you don't.
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You will contract a rare disease.
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You will engage in a profitable business activity.
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You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it will pass.
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You will feel hungry again in another hour.
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You will forget that you ever knew me.
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You will gain money by a fattening action.
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You will gain money by a speculation or lottery.
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You will gain money by an illegal action.
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You will gain money by an immoral action.
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You will get what you deserve.
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You will give someone a piece of your mind, which you can ill afford.
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You will have a long and boring life.
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You will have a long and unpleasant discussion with your supervisor.
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You will have domestic happiness and faithful friends.
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You will have good luck and overcome many hardships.
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You will have long and healthy life.
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You will hear good news from one you thought unfriendly to you.
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You will inherit millions of dollars.
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You will inherit some money or a small piece of land.
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You will live a long, healthy, happy life and make bags of money.
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You will live to see your grandchildren.
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You will lose your present job and have to become a door to door mayonnaise salesman.
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You will meet an important person who will help you advance professionally.
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You will never know hunger.
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You will not be elected to public office this year.
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You will obey or molten silver will be poured into your ears.
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You will outgrow your usefulness.
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You will overcome the attacks of jealous associates.
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You will pass away very quickly.
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You will pay for your sins.  If you have already paid, please disregard this message.
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You will pioneer the first Martian colony.
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You will probably marry after a very brief courtship.
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You will reach the highest possible point in your business or profession.
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You will receive a legacy which will place you above want.
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You will remember something that you should not have forgotten.
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You will soon forget this.
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You will soon meet a person who will play an important role in your life.
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You will step on the night soil of many countries.
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You will stop at nothing to reach your objective, but only because your brakes are defective.
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You will triumph over your enemy.
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You will visit the Dung Pits of Glive soon.
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You will win success in whatever calling you adopt.
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You will wish you hadn't.
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You work very hard.  Don't try to think as well.
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You worry too much about your job.  Stop it.  You are not paid enough to worry.
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You would if you could but you can't so you won't.
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You'd like to do it instantaneously, but that's too slow.
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You'll be called to a post requiring ability in handling groups of people.
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You'll be sorry...
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You'll feel devilish tonight.  Toss dynamite caps under a flamenco dancer's heel.
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You'll feel much better once you've given up hope.
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You'll never be the man your mother was!
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You'll never see all the places, or read all the books, but fortunately,
they're not all recommended.
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You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier
to do.
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You're a card which will have to be dealt with.
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You're almost as happy as you think you are.
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You're at the end of the road again.
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You're being followed.  Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days.
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You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life."
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You're definitely on their list.  The question to ask next is what list it is.
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You're growing out of some of your problems, but there are others that you're growing into.
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You're not my type.  For that matter, you're not even my species!!!
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You're ugly and your mother dresses you funny.
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You're working under a slight handicap.  You happen to be human.
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You've been leading a dog's life.  Stay off the furniture.
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Your aim is high and to the right.
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Your aims are high, and you are capable of much.
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Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient.  Don't believe a
thing he tells you.
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Your best consolation is the hope that the things you failed to get weren't really worth having.
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Your boss climbed the corporate ladder, wrong by wrong.
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Your boss is a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
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Your boyfriend takes chocolate from strangers.
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Your business will assume vast proportions.
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Your business will go through a period of considerable expansion.
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Your depth of comprehension may tend to make you lax in worldly ways.
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Your domestic life may be harmonious.
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Your fly might be open (but don't check it just now).
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Your goose is cooked.
(Your current chick is burned up too!)
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Your heart is pure, and your mind clear, and your soul devout.
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Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
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Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret.
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Your love life will be happy and harmonious.
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Your love life will be... interesting.
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Your lover will never wish to leave you.
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Your lucky color has faded.
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Your lucky number has been disconnected.
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Your lucky number is 3552664958674928.  Watch for it everywhere.
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Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of good news soon.
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Your mode of life will be changed for the better because of new developments.
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Your motives for doing whatever good deed you may have in mind will be misinterpreted by somebody.
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Your nature demands love and your happiness depends on it.
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Your object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.
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Your own qualities will help prevent your advancement in the world.
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Your present plans will be successful.
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Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.
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Your reasoning powers are good, and you are a fairly good planner.
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Your sister swims out to meet troop ships.
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Your society will be sought by people of taste and refinement.
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Your step will soil many countries.
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Your supervisor is thinking about you.
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Your talents will be recognized and suitably rewarded.
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Your temporary financial embarrassment will be relieved in a surprising manner.
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Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
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