The Frictionary # 1105

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10566. Law is not justice and a trial is not a scientific inquiry into truth. A trial is the resolution of a dispute. (Edison Haines)

10567. There are no pills against narcissism. Being manipulative is not a mental illness. (Marie-Ève Cotton)

10568. It takes the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself. (Figgy Joyce)

10569. We are not infallible because we are sincere. (Sacha Guitry)

10570. The shadow of the zebra has no stripes. (African proverb)

10571. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. (Bill Maher)

10572. What a woman calls being right is not having all the wrongs. (Sophie Arnoud)

10573. Any general statement is like a cheque on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. (Ezra Pound)

10574. Be decisive. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision. (?)

10575. Who has not known absence knows nothing of love. (Christian Bobin)

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The Frictionary # 1104

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10556. Freedom of expression is a farce if factual information is not guaranteed and the facts themselves are not the subject of debate. Hannah Arendt)

10557. The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see. (Alexandra K. Trenfor)

10558.  The more I know men, the more I love women. (Francis Blanche)

10559. Science does not deal in facts - it deals in hypotheses, which are never fully and finally correct. (Orson Scott Card)

10560. Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches. (Italo Calvino)

10561. Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. (Kin Hubbard)

10562. Without humour, cruelty is everywhere. (Gary Vidor)

10563. Never mind maps/ borders are invisible scars/ they do not divide land/ only people. (Positively Wyrde)

10564. Never make a woman mad, they can remember stuff that hasn't happened yet. (?)

10465. History is written by those who win. (Robert Brasillach)

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The Frictionary # 1103

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10546. All men are equal... even women. (Isabelle Alonso)

10547. Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïveté. (Maria Popova)

10548. Only the dead can be resurrected. It's more difficult with the living. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

10549. There are two tragedies in life./ One is not to get your heart's desire./ The other is to get it. (George Bernard Shaw)

10550. Who rides a tiger cannot dismount. (Chinese proverb)

10551. Just because we got there doesn’t mean we’re done. (André Sauvé)

10552. People were given a vast universe to teach them humility and they invented astrology to make it all about them. (Bon Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10553. In the past, there was more future than now. (Philippe Geluck)

10554. Zoos are elaborate prisons for animals who aren't delicious. (?)

10555. To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the end. (Helen Rowland)

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The Frictionary # 1102

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10536. Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes. (Jan Masaryk)

10537. Depressions may bring people closer to the church - but so do funerals. (Clarence Darrow)

10538. Super glue setting time: wood: 30sec. plastic:20 sec. ceramic: 15 sec. fingers: instant. (Laetitia Castwa)

10539. It took less than an hour to make the atom, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man.* *Numbers now revised.

10540. Lying is the talent of those who do not have any. (Marie-Josph Chénier)

10541. The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. (Ned Rorem)

10542. Thousands upon thousands have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health. (Adelle Davis)

10543. I am the ocean/ who longs to touch your foot. (Richard Desjardins)

10544. I was playing chess with a friend and he said, "Let's make this interesting." So, we stopped playing chess. (?)

10545. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of female begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." (Shirley Chisholm)

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The Frictionary # 1101

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10526. The more you live, the less you die. (Janis Joplin)

10527. To despise is to refuse to understand. (Marcel Aymé)

10528. The cornerstone of male philosophy was (is) "If you ignore it, maybe it'll go away". (Stephen King)

10529. Veggie sausage: hummus in a condom. (Simon Gouache)

10530. If you work hard to prevent people from voting, you pretty much admit your ideas aren't popular and you fear the verdict of the people. (Dan Rather)

10531. Scale: driving power of guilt. (Hugo Léger)

10532. It's 2025 and we still don't know who let the dogs out. (Judes Dickey)

10533. We are so used to complicating our lives that it has become complicated to be simple. (André Sauvé)

10534. Mortgage: a house with a guilty conscience. (?)

10535. What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious. (Lisel Muller)

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The Frictionary # 1100

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10516. Certain things in life have to be experienced and never explained. Love is such a thing. (Paulo Coelho)

10517. If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. (Dean Smith)

10518. There are three dimensions of love: depth, duration and trust. (André Maurois)

10519.  Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets. (Bill Vaughan)

10520.  Not all -ly words are adverbs and not all adverbs end in -ly. July is a month, lily is a flower, and ugly bully is a president. (Anu Garg)

10521. You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither. (Steve Martin)

10522. Culture is not a science. And fortunately. Its benefits are not quantifiable and it bothers those who count. (Marc Séguin)

10523. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. (Bertrand Russell)

10524. If you do not say anything, you will not be asked to repeat. (?)

10525. History is written by the victors and those who are able to write it. (Bernard Werber)

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The Frictionary # 1099

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10506. Greatness has nothing to do with goodness. (Frank Yerby)

10507. Music is the home of sharing cultures. (Betty Bonifassi)

10508. People know many things, and half of them are wrong. If only we knew which half, we'd have reason to be proud of our intelligence. (Orson Scott Card)

10509. If you boil your alphabet soup too long, you will eat capitals. (François Morency)

10510. Our planet is beset by conflict, climate change, pollution, disease, and other hazards. What better time to be hopeful. (Anne Lamott)

10511. One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. (Klaus Kinski)

10512. Never serve tea from a Neti pot. (James Ford)

10513. Justice does not come via the Internet. (Tristane Banon)

10514. What you are not changing you are choosing. Read that again. (?)

10515. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. (Margaret Fuller)

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