Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay
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/ [May one] doubt whether, in cheese and \
| timber, worms are generated, |
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| or, if beetles and wasps, in cow-dung, |
| or if butterflies, locusts, |
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| shellfish, snails, eels, and such life |
| be procreated of putrefied |
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| matter, which is to receive the form of |
| that creature to which it |
| |
| is by formative power disposed[?] To |
| question this is to question |
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| reason, sense, and experience. If he |
| doubts this, let him go to |
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| Egypt, and there he will find the |
| fields swarming with mice begot |
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| of the mud of the Nylus, to the great |
| calamity of the inhabitants. |
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| A seventeenth century opinion quoted by |
| L. L. Woodruff, |
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| in *The Evolution of Earth and Man*, |
\ 1929 /
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$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay");
echo $output;