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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The Frictionary # 1076

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10286. If you're not getting older, you're dead. (Tom Petty)

10287. No message is traced on a clean glass. (Robert Mallet)

10288. Consensus is the negation of leadership. (Margaret Thatcher)

10289. An opinion is like gastroenteritis, it’s not because you have it that you have to share it. (Laurent Paquin)

10290. Education pays - Unless you are the educator. (Mary Woodruff)

10291. They called it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken. (Walter Hagen)

10292. It takes one day to make a senator and 10 years to make a worker. (Albert Camus)

10293. Time is static in the mind. (Malachi Black)

10294. Drugstore: Candy store for retired people. (?)

10295. Promises are binding only on those who receive them. (Jacques Chirac)

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The Frictionary # 1075

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10276. The effect that quotations generally have: a spark that is confused for meaning. (Pierre Foglia)

10277. Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. (Frank Dane)

10278. The child king is the offspring of a blind parent. (Patrick Lagacé)

10279. I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? (Tom Clancy)

10280. God has been replaced, (...) with respectability and air conditioning. (Amin Baraka)

10281. One of the privileges of childhood is that beauty, luxury and happiness are things that can be eaten. (Simone de Beauvoir)

10282. Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. (Zig Ziglar)

10283. Partisanship is the lobotomy of activism. (Vincent Marissal)

10284. Watchdog: dog that tells time. (?)

10285. Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. (Howard Mumford Jones)

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The Frictionary # 1074

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10266. The outcome of any serious research  can only be to make two questions where only one grew before. (Thorstein Veblen)

10267. We either make ourselves happy or miserable.  The amount of work is the same. (Cornelius Castoriadis)

10268. Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining. (Teddy Roosevelt)

10269. It doesn't matter if you are a rose, or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is flowering. (Osho)

10270. Sometimes we can only/ know a thing/ by the shape of its absence. (Positively Wyrde)

10271. Bus: A vehicle that runs twice as fast when you run after it as when you sit in it. (Dany Caulleau)

10272. I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me. (Elayne Boosler)

10273. The young man walks faster than the elder, but the elder knows the road. (African proverb)

10274. The Lord is my shepherd: a shepherd's main interest is ensuring that his sheep are regularly fleeced. (?)

10275. Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. (Gloria Steinem)

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The Frictionary #1073

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10256. The opposite of forgetting is not remembering, it is learning. (Julia Kerninon)

10257. Worry is the habit of anticipating chaos. (Joseph J. Luciano)

10258. Religions are only trusts of superstitions. (Jacques Prévert)

10259. If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. (Neil Simon)

10260. We do not find solitude, we create it. (Marguerite Duras)

10261. Illegal immigrant: guest worker. (George Carlin)

10262. Seek the company of those who seek the truth, and run away from those who have found it. (Vaclav Havel)

10263. Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. (Bruce Calvert)

10264. It's as difficult to lower the toilet seat as it is to lift it up. (?)

10265. Thought travels at the speed of desire. (Malcolm de Chazal)

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The Frictionary # 1072

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10246. Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. (George Carlin)

10247. I like the expression "without a doubt" which, contrary to its original meaning, suggests that there is more reason to doubt. (Nicolas Dickner)

10248. The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. (George Marshall)

10249. Reason wants to decide what is just. - Anger wants to find just what it has decided. (Seneca)

10250. When it hurts observe. Life's trying to teach you something. (Anita Krizzan)

10251. At night, some words are grey. (Jean-Pierre Drouin)

10252. I wish COVID-19 had started in Las Vegas. Because what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. (Daddysjokes)

10253. Not all truth is good to say... and certainly not good to hear. (Réjean Lévesque)

10254. The two unwritten rules for life: 1:__________ 2:____________. (?)

10255. Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. (Cathy Guisewite)

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