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// Copyright 1996 - Tomer and Yehuda Shiran
// This example will appear in our forthcoming book on JavaScript.
// Feel free to "steal" this code provided that you leave this notice as is.
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// For more information contact Tomer or Yehuda Shiran <yshiran@iil.intel.com>

function getMessage() {
// create array of quotes
var ar = new Array(32)
ar[0] = "...and Heaven have mercy on us all-- Presbyterians and Pagans alike-- for we are all dreadfully cracked about the head and desperately in need of mending.  -- Moby Dick"
ar[1] = "Man's sensitivity to trivia, and his insensitivity to matters of major importance, reveal he has a strange disorder.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[2] = "What vanity is painting! It wins applause merely by representing things, while the originals are not even admired.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[3] = "A trifling thing will console us because a trifling thing upsets us.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[4] = "If our condition was one of true happiness, we would not need to distract ourselves from thinking about it.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[5] = "A definition of man is of a being of dependence, longing for independence, and having needs.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[6] = "Being unable to cure death, misery, and ignorance, men have decided that in order to be happy, they must repress thinking about such things.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[7] = "It is good to be weary and frustrated with the fruitless search for the good, so that one can reach out one's arms instead to the Redeemer.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[8] = "The last scene of the play is bloody, however fine the rest of it.  They throw earth over your head, and it is finished forever.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[9] = "Mankind suffers from two excesses: To exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[10] = "Experience demonstrates the great difference between piety and goodness.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[11] = "Power rules the world, not opinion. But it is opinion that exploits the power.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[12] = "Two things teach man about his whole nature: instinct and experience.  -- Blaise Pascal"
ar[13] = "The fact that we still live well cannot ease the pain of feeling that we no longer live nobly.  -- 	John Updike"
ar[14] = "The truth of Christianity is that it is true to what is there.  -- 	Francis A. Schaeffer"
ar[15] = "The Church is uncommonly vocal about the subject of bedrooms and so singularly silent on the subject of boardrooms.  -- 	Dorothy L. Sayers"
ar[16] = "Narcissism is the attempt to retreat from Square One back into the spiritual sovereignty of self.  Forget infinity.  Forget mystery.  Cultivate the wonderful self.  It might be a small world, but it is my world, totally mine.  -- 	Eugene H. Peterson"
ar[17] = "Is it possible for people to miss their lives in the same way one misses a plane?  -- 	Walker Percy"
ar[18] = "You Christians must show me that you are redeemed before I will believe in your Redeemer.  -- 	Friedrich Nietzsche"
ar[19] = "There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.'  -- C.S. Lewis"
ar[20] = "Our lives are so chaotic because in our arrogance we dwell on how our plans have been skewed.  God had plans too.  -- 	Timothy J. Keller"
ar[21] = "Most of us don't grow up as Hitler or Ivan the Terrible, but it's not for lack of talent.  -- 	Timothy J. Keller"
ar[22] = "The world to come, Scripture says, will be an urban world.  The redemption drama that began in a garden will end in a city, the new Jerusalem.  Heaven's citizens will be urbanites.  -- 	Roger Greenway"
ar[23] = "Master, I am in great distress!  The spirits that I conjured up I cannot now get rid of.  --  Goethe"
ar[24] = "he Sorcerer's Apprentice  "
ar[25] = " can't believe that God plays dice with the universe.  -- 	Albert Einstein"
ar[26] = "So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.  -- 	Fyodor Dostoevsky"
ar[27] = "Christ has come not to put women down but to lift them up, to remove the tarnish of sin's subordinationist drive and exalt women to their high place as images of God.  -- 	Harvie M. Conn"
ar[28] = "A man can no more possess a private religion that he can possess a private sun and moon.  -- 	G.K. Chesterton"
ar[29] = "The rebel defies more than he denies.  Originally, at least, he does not suppress God; he merely talks to Him as an equal.  But it is not a polite dialogue.  It is a polemic animated by the desire to conquer.  -- 	Albert Camus"
ar[30] = "Modernity has accomplished many far-reaching transformations, but it has not fundamentally changed the finitude, fragility and mortality of the human condition.  -- 	Peter Berger"
ar[31] = "The vast majority of unchurched people think that Christians hate them.  -- 	Jerram Barrs"

var now = new Date()
var sec = now.getSeconds()
document.write(ar[sec % 20]);
}
getMessage()
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