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// Store some random quotations

function rand ( n )
{
	return ( Math.floor ( Math.random ( ) * n + 1 ) );
}

var random_quote = new Array ( );
var random_author = new Array ( );

// Enter Quotes here
random_quote[0]  = "[Plato] enriched fantastic zoology with vast spherical animals and cast aspersions on those slow-witted astronomers who failed to understand that the circular course of heavenly bodies was entirely voluntary.";
random_author[0] = "From The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges (Penguin Books, 1967)";
random_quote[1]  = "Chang Tzu tells us of a determined man who at the end of three thankless years mastered the art of slaying dragons, and for the rest of his days was not given a single chance to put his art into practice.";
random_author[1] = "from The Chinese Dragon";
random_quote[2]  = "This Toad glows in the dark like a firefly and is so tough that the only way to kill it is to reduce it to ashes. It owes its name to the great power of its stare, which it uses to attract or repel whatever is in its range.";
random_author[2] = "from Myths and Superstitions by Julio Vicuņa Cifuentes";
random_quote[3]  = "The glazes of the tiles, which have survived the blazing sun of Central Asia for centuries, are remarkable - especially the emerald greens and cobalt blues. They made me think of corals in the desert!";
random_author[3] = "From The hot seat: reflections on diplomacy from Stalin's death to the Bali bombings by Richard Woolcott";
random_quote[4]  = "This made me a rock-hard touch for the unfortunate Bowery bums along my route home, though I would feel compelled to shell out for one who shuffled towards me with the immortal line, Have you got fifteen dollars for my ballet lessons?";
random_author[4] = "From Still Spitting at Sixty by Roger Law";
random_quote[5]  = "All it takes is a bit of humour, I thought to myself, as Nura and I passed the same soldier as we drove back to Ramallah that same afternoon.";
random_author[5] = "From Sharon and my Mother-in-Law by Suad Amiry";
random_quote[6] = "";
random_author[6]= "";

// enter total number of quotes here
var count = 6;


// find a different random numbers in range
var randnr = rand(count)-1;

// assign quote and author
var randquote = random_quote[randnr];
var randauthor = random_author[randnr];

// write output
document.write(randquote + "<br><b>-- " + randauthor + "</b>");


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