The Frictionary # 1083

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10346. You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place. (Maya Angelou)

10347. Being is more essential than having. The dream is to have something in order to be. (Frédéric Dard)

10348. America was founded by slave owners who informed us, "All men are created equal". All men except Indians, niggers, and women. (George Carlin)

10349. Truth is like a naked woman: beautiful or ugly. (Réjean Lévesque)

10350. The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. (Bertrand Russell)

10351. Faith lulls doubt to sleep. (Lucien Arréat)

10352. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. (Frank Zappa)

10353. If an animal tells you it can talk, it probably is lying. (African proverb)

10354. Know that suicide does not kill the pain, it simply passes it on to someone else. (?)

10355. - Is democracy dead or alive?  - We know Schrödinger's dead. (Brooks Riley "Catspeak")

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The Frictionary # 1082

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10346. The will finds, freedom chooses. To find and choose is to think. (Victor Hugo)

10347. The atom is not aa unit of stuff, but a tiny center of matter, swarmed by nearly weightless electrons orbiting at great distances and at great speed. We are mostly restlessness and empty space. (Maria Popova)

10348. We must not despair. Despite the desperate times. The future is long. (Bernard Émond)

10349. There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. (Oscar Wilde)

10350. Words are like bags: they take the form of what you put in them. (Alfred Capus)

10351. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. (Alfred A. Montapert)

10352. "Live and let live". Except for hunting. (Étienne Marcoux)

10353. The trouble is, you think you have time. (Jack Kornfield)

10354. Dang, every single sheep I counted had insomnia. (Glenn McCoy "The Duplex")

10355. Hatred (...) is like dust. All you have to do to provoke it is to live. (Stéphane Laporte)

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The Frictionary # 1081

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10336. Art is the struggle to understand. (Audrey Foris)

10337. Genealogy: a compendium of true stories. (Réjean Lévesque)

10338. Never, never get involved with someone who wants to change you. (Quentin Crisp)

10339. Tolerance is when you know stupid people and don’t say their names. (Michel Audiard)

10340. Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. (Richard Bach)

10341. Nothing happens as planned. It’s the only thing that the future tells us by becoming of the past. (Daniel Pennac)

10342. It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. (Lewis Carroll)

10343. Ranch: safe house for horses. (Yannick de Martino)

10344. I started out with nothing and I still have most of it. (?)

10345. Success and failure - we think of them as opposites, but they're not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. (Laurence Shames)

The Frictionary # 1080

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10326. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. (Daniel  Kahneman)

10327. Mystery: Trump. (Réjean Lévesque)

10328. Stop expecting honesty from people who lie to themselves. (Steven Bartlett)

10329. Nothing is ever without consequence, therefore nothing is ever free. (Confucius)

10330. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. (Doe Zantamata)

10331. We like change once we get used to it. (Patrick Huard)

10332. A child will either wear a band-aid for 7 minutes or for two years. (Abe Yospe)

10333. The first man who died must have been totally surprised. (Georges Wolinski)

10334. "Chanel no. 5' does not replace the "Shower no.1". (?)

10335. What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year. (Vern McLellan)

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The Frictionary # 1079

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10316. Dreams are the oxygen of the soul, and sometimes the helium as well. (Mardy Grothe)

10317. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

10318. Nothing is more identical than what is like the same thing. (Pierre Dac)

10319. You can not find peace by avoiding life. (Virginia Woolf)

10320. The French are satisfied at little cost, a little familiarity in manners seems like equality to them. (Alfred de Vigny)

10321. We weren't always racists. We were always mean, murderers, of course. (Andy Martin)

10322. Entrust the Sahara to civil servants, and in five years you will run out of sand. (Coluche)

10323. How do we know Santa is not just asking for HoHo's? (Jim Gaffigan)

10324. We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget about leaving better kids to this planet. (?)

1025. All human beings think, only intellectuals brag about it. (Philippe Bouvard)

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The Frictionary # 1078

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10306. The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair. (Steven Maraboli)

10307. Would research advance faster if instead of recruiting researchers we hired finders. (Philippe Geluck)

10308. I like Florida; everything is in the eighties. The temperature, the ages, and the IQ. (George Carlin)

10309. To exist is a fact, to live is an art. The whole path to life is to pass from fear to love. (Fréféric Lenoir)

10310. The question, "What is Trump thinking?" is the wrong one. He's not thinking, he's selling. What's he selling? Whatever pops into his head. (Matt Taibbi)

10311. I like people who choose carefully the words not to say. (Alda Merini)

10312. Justice isn't blind, but many times it doesn't see because it chooses to look the other way. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10313. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. (Gore Vidal)

10314. I think Google is a girl because it doesn’t let you finish your sentence without suggesting other ideas. (?)

10315. The logical posture for a believer is to let go, pray, and be afraid. (Félix Le Dantec)

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The Frictionary # 1077

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10296. To search requires effort and a goal, understanding is spontaneous and effortless. (Nitin)

10297. Experience shows that it is much easier to take hostages than to release them. (André Frossard)

10298. On your way up, show consideration/ to the ones you meet on their way down./ The Latin root of "condescension"/ Means we all sink. (Seamus Heaney)

10299. Speaking is a need, listening is an art. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

10300. Collective immunity, if it worked so well, we’d all be spared from the bullshit. (Anna Conda)

10301. Celery is what happens when you tell grass it can be anything it wants to be. (greggy)

10302. For years I have waited for my life to change, but now I know it was she who waited for me to change. (Fabio Volo)

10303. Older people lose their hearing because we're not asking them anything. ("Mork and Mindy")

10304. Every time history repeats itself the price goes up. (?)

10305. Cannabis - Allows a neurasthenic idiot to look like a happy fool. (Jean-François Kahn)

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