The Frictionary # 1117

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10686. Facts will always matter for the same reason that truth matters and love matters: because, at our core, in the end, we believe they do. (Teresa Mathew)

10687. Incivility is not a vice of the soul, it is the effect of several vices: foolish vanity, ignorance of one’s duties, laziness, stupidity, distraction, contempt for others, jealousy. (Jean de La Bruyère)

10688. A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. (Zig Ziglar)

10689. Racism and hatred are not inscribed in the deadly sins; they can be worse. (Jacques Prévert)

10690. Peace is necessary, For justice, it is necessary, For hope, it is necessary, for our future. (Harry Belafonte)

10691. Man is such a complicated machine that sometimes we don’t understand anything, especially if this man is a woman. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

10692. Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! (Simone Elkeles)

10693. Science, like love, is blind. That’s why it likes to proceed by groping. (Jean O'Neil)

10694. Reading can seriously damage your ignorance. (?)

10695. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. (Aristotle)

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The Frictionary # 1116

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10676. Man needs to believe to chase away his fears or to renew them. (Albert Brie)

10677. Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. (Clarice Lispector)

10678. Deep down, an ice cube is water that has learned to swim. (Philippe Geluck)

10679. Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter. (Julius H. Comroe Jr)

10680. Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to the limit, but you don't want to break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its people. (Wu Guanzhong)

10681. Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. (Napoleon Hill)

10682. Those who don't like jokes below the belt should buy suspenders. (Jean Yanne)

10683. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. (Julius Gordon)

10684. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (?)

10685. Eternal love can last only one night, because eternity is not what makes it last, but what abolishes duration. (Emmanuelle Arsan)

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The Frictionary # 1115

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10666. When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. (G.K. Chesterton)

10667. It's Hell, it's Heaven: the amount you earn/ Determines if you play the harp or burn. (Bertolt Brecht)

10668. I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?". (Eve Merriam)

10669. The essential is constantly threatened by the insignificant. (René Char)

10670. It will be yet the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. (George W. Foote)

10671. Don't be misled by fanatics who say/ That only one truth should be stated:/ Truth is constructed in such a way/ That it can't be exaggerated. (Piet Hein)

10672. A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

10673. Aging is annoying because we don’t know when it started and even less when it will end. (Bernard Pivot)

10674. In the category of the great scams of this world: the price of razor blades. (?)

10675. If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. (Jack Kerouac)

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The Frictionary # 1114

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10656. Political party - where people of shared values form an allegiance and then proceed to sacrifice their values to the allegiance. (Robert Brault)

10657. Courage is the exception, it’s automatically loneliness. What a void around courage! (Jean Giono)

10658. When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful & difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid. (Ricky Gervais)

10659. Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours (...) They carry themselves with an aloof sense of perpetual entitlement. (Caroline Knapp)

10660. Who does not keep on learning is unworthy of teaching. (Gaston Bachelard)

10661. The best part of aging is pretending you don't understand technology. (Maria Scriver "Half Full")

10662. We come and go; time remains. Then time is not time; then it is eternity. (Osho)

10663. I'm in the Now a lot more now/ And here's what's even greater/ I never can run out/There's always more Now later. (Greg Tamblyn)

10664. Coyote: homeless wolf. (Martin Petit)

10665. Influencers only talk to those who can be influenced. (Michel Denisot)

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The Frictionary # 1113

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10646. To achieve simplicity, one must try to not try. (Réjean Lévesque)

10647. Everything else of the you that is you is memory. (Nils Peterson)

10648. The only certainty I have is that I'm in doubt. (Pierre Desproges)

10649. There are two tragedies in life./ One is not to get your heart's desire./ The other is to get it. (George Bernard Shaw)

10650. Who increases his knowledge increases his ignorance. (Friedrich von Schlegel)

10651. - Why do they say "Time is like a river"? 

            - Because the longer you're in it, the more wrinkled you get. 

(Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10652. The media undo at night what school weaves during the day. (Thomas De Koninck)

10653. The worst thing about parallel parking is witnesses. (mariana Z)

10654. Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea. (?)

10655. To know is to choose what you will not forget. (Cynthia Fleury)

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The Frictionary # 1112

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10636. It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -Dumbledore (Rowling, J.K.)

10637. I studied all the methods to burn fat and apparently, the most effective is cremation. (Laetitia Castwa)

10638. No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient. (Arthur Miller)

10639. Have you noticed that the "people" is always on the side of the person who claims it. (François Cardinal)

10640. Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer? (Clarice Lispector)

10641. The truth is that there is an incredible amount of drops that do not run over the cup. (Romain Gary)

10642. Enough is a decision not an amount. (Alison Faulkner)

10643. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. (JUnichiro Tanizaki)

10644. We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended. (?)

10645. Wrongs are often forgotten, but contempt never is. Philip D. Stanhope)

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The Frictionary # 1111

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10626. Since we can never know anything for sure, it is simply not worth searching for certainty, but it is well worth searching for truth. (Karl Popper)

10627. Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich. (Carsten Jensen)

10628. Luck is the ability to adapt instantly to the unexpected. (Alfred Capus)

10629. We're only immortal for a limited time. (Neil Peart)

10630. Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand:/ bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. (Hafiz)

10631. Language is not the frosting, it's the cake. (Tom Robbins)

10632. It serves no purpose for man to win the moon if he comes to lose the Earth. (François Mauriac)

10633. I have post-party depression. (Wendy LIebman)

10634. Homeopathy: the air guitar of medicine. (?)

10635. The past is a broken egg, the future is a brooded egg. (Paul Éluard)

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