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I did something similar that I hand wrote but it's different verses from the Bible whenever I cd into my main working location. It helps me memorize verses slowly over time and it's not too intrusive though occasionally I'll disable it before pair programming on something with a colleague since it feels inappropriate at work to force someone else to put up with it if they have qualms about it.

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For the sibling commenters trying to grief OP, he never said he randomly selects verses. I wish you all a nice day.

Cool. Do you have a list of which verses you use? I'd like to do something similar myself.

Sure, it's a bit of a random list since it's not selected beforehand, but here are them:

- Romans 6:3

- Proverbs 16:9

- Matthew 5:9

- Galatians 5:22

- Galatians 5:6b

- Isaiah 55:9

- Psalm 117

- Psalm 23 (this is the largest one)

- Matthew 9:37,38

I'm pretty sure I've since memorized all of these so it is time to add more verses into the mix!

I had a similar thing, very unsophisticated at the time, to randomize quotes that I’d manually curated into a text file.

You can always just open a new terminal and then quickly hit ctrl-L to clear. Gives an opportunity for them to ask if they care, or to just move on otherwise.

Yesterday I discovered fortune(1) and in turn display-dhammapada(1).

I'm tempted to set up a cron job and receive daily emails.

Were you just doing shuf(1) on a text file of Bible quotes?

Naw, I wanted to memorize certain ones. It's worked though. I'm pretty much there with all of the ones I picked.

Aaaah gotta love me some Corinthians 14:34-35 in the morning

good, do the Quran next

Ah yes, I’d love to start the day reading a fresh “Numbers 31:17” verse. For pair programming I’d just stick to “Leviticus 18:22”

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