The Frictionary # 1087

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10386. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)

10387. We so much need to be needed. (Jean-Jacques Goldman)

10388. "Organic" is a grocery term meaning it's twice as expensive. (Jim Gaffigan)

10389. Love, there are those who talk about it and there are those who do. From this point on, I feel it is urgent to shut up. (Pierre Desproges)

10390. There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few. (Lawrence Lessig)

10391. We are the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon. (Rumi)

10392. Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. (Karen Kaiser Clark)

10393. The infinitely small, it’s just a hair bigger than nothing. (Philippe Geluck)

10394. I like dogs too. Let's exchange recipes. (?)

10395. The word "now" is like a bomb through the window and it ticks. (Arthur Miller)

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The Frictionary # 1086

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10376. We believe the same falsehoods. We avoid the same truths. We repeat the same mistakes. Groundhog Day is every day of the year. (Stéphane Laporte)

10377. No human being is illegal. (Elie Wiesel)

10378. The optimistic has only bad surprises. The pessimistic has only good surprises. (Edgar Morin)

10379. The New Testament is not new anymore; it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament. (George Carlin)

10380. If nothing can save you from death/ At least let love save your life. (Pablo Neruda)

10381. Much like Apple products, I also, am only compatible with myself.(The Red Dwarf)

10382. We invented the word pick so as not to say that we are killing flowers. (zazlazing)

10383. The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable. (Enid Bagnold)

10384. I found a wallet today and as a good Christian I thought,"What would Jesus do?". So I turned it into wine. (?)

10385. Music is an illusion that redeems all others. (E.M. Cioran)

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The Frictionary # 1085

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10366. The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think. (David Icke)

10367. You have to forgive yourself a lot to get used to forgiving others. (Anatole France)

10368. Think about it: if there's a health food section in the grocery store, what does that make the rest of the foods sold there? (Mark HYman)

10369. There are no friends: there are moments of friendship. (Jules Renard)

10370. Silence becomes a kind of crime when it operates as a cover or an encouragement to the guilty. (Thomas Paine)

10371. The future is liquid, the past is solid. Sorrow is a carp, happiness an eel. (Jean-Louis Aubert)

10372. Each that we lose takes part of us,/ A crescent still abides,/ Which like the moon, some turbid night/ Is summoned by the tides. (Emily Dickenson)

10373. It’s not the cages that are singing. It’s the birds. (Chinese proverb)

10374. Steve Jobs would have made a better president than Trump...But that's comparing apples to oranges. (Daddysaysjokes)

10375. Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance. (A.C. Grayling)

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The Frictionary # 1084

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10356. Future love does not exist. (...) Love is a present activity only. (Leo Tolstoy)

10357. Science is a self-correcting process in which bad actors and wrong ideas sooner or later get rooted out and fuzzy evidence becomes sharper. That is the joy and the beauty of the method that has made the modern world what it is. (The editors of "Nature")

10358. The two most famous phrases in the world: "I love you" and "Made in China". Note that both offer no guarantee. (Pather)

10359. I'm NOT OK, you're NOT OK - and that's OK. (William Sloane Coffin Jr.)

10360. Sculpture rests on the void. (Alberto Giacometti)

10361. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. (Clive James)

10362. Depression is not seeing the glass half empty. It is not knowing how to fill it. (Barbutozor)

10363. Watching in the distance/ stars blink in celestial code/ wondering what do stars talk about? (Mud Queen Storm)

10364. On average, a giant panda eats 12 hours a day. A confined human eats like a panda. Hence the name: pandemic. (?)

10365. No winner believes in chance. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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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)