Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay
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/ I made it a rule to forbear all direct \
| contradictions to the sentiments of |
| others, and all positive assertion of |
| my own. I even forbade myself the use |
| of every word or expression in the |
| language that imported a fixed opinion, |
| such as "certainly", "undoubtedly", |
| etc. I adopted instead of them "I |
| conceive", "I apprehend", or "I |
| imagine" a thing to be so or so; or "so |
| it appears to me at present". |
| |
| When another asserted something that I |
| thought an error, I denied myself the |
| pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, |
| and of showing him immediately some |
| absurdity in his proposition. In |
| answering I began by observing that in |
| certain cases or circumstances his |
| opinion would be right, but in the |
| present case there appeared or semed to |
| me some difference, etc. |
| |
| I soon found the advantage of this |
| change in my manner; the conversations |
| I engaged in went on more pleasantly. |
| The modest way in which I proposed my |
| opinions procured them a readier |
| reception and less contradiction. I had |
| less mortification when I was found to |
| be in the wrong, and I more easily |
| prevailed with others to give up their |
| mistakes and join with me when I |
| happened to be in the right. |
| |
\ -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin /
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$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;