The Frictionary # 1092

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10436. Most people want security in this world, not liberty. (H.L. Mencken)

10437. Everyone knows that deterrent weapons are only effective if they are not used. (André Frossard)

10438. I used to wonder what it was like to read people's minds, then I got a Facebook account and I got over it. (Funnyoneliners)

10439. Civilization is a fight against fear. (Gaston Bouthoul)

10440. For beige isn't a color, it's a state of mind. (Hannah Betts)

10441. At least love passes the time... And time passes love. (Guillaume Musso)

10442. You know what they fill futons with? Hatred. (Jim Gaffigan)

10443. People who have a good conscience often have a bad memory. (Jacques Brel)

10444. Drunk people, children, and leggings always tell the truth. (?)

10445. Faith does not produce miracles. Faith makes excuses for the lack of miracles. (almightygod)

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The Frictionary #1091

10426. Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. (Khalil Gibran)

10427. Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. (Yoni Appelbaum)

10428. The past is present in our future. (Réjean Lévesque)

10429. The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. (S.A. Sachs)

10430. Dare I say? God is easily known, as long as one does not constrain oneself to define him. (Joseph Joubert)

10431. If you need to vusualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. (Tom Robbins)

10432. If the sky falls on my head, it will mean that I was standing when it happened. (Normand Lester)

10433. Poems are scars/ shaped like words. (Sable Swan)

10434. The fact that the world is populated by morons allows each of us to go unnoticed. (?)

10435. Music: the costliest of all noises. (Théophile Gautier)

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The Frictionary # 1090

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10416. When you blame others, you give up your power to change. (Robert Anthony)

10417. Memory does not make films, it makes photographs. (Milan Kundera)

10418. When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. (Lucius Cary)

10419. The ram that is going to charge starts by backing up. (African proverb)

10420. If money can't buy happiness, I guess I'll have to rent it. (Weird Al Yankovic)

10421. Nothing disturbs a life more than love. (François Mauriac)

10422. Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

10423. Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. (Gandhi)

10424. My girlfriend said, "Emo, I'm seeing another man." I said, "Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.". (Emo Philips)

10425. We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. (Rudyard Kipling)

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The Frictionary # 1089

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10406. Society has discovered discrimination as the great social weapon by which one may kill men without any bloodshed. (Hannah Arendt)

10407. Simplicity is making a firm choice not to fill ourselves with what empties us. (Régis Carlo)

10408. The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. (Peter DeVries)

10409. Nations are many, Earth is One. Oceans are many, Water is One. Stars are many, Sky is One. Beings are many, Breath is One. Gods are many, Love is One. (Sathya Sai Baba)

10410. Each passing second is a unit of change. (Réjean Lévesque)

10411. Science; a funny thing - it keeps on working even when you don't believe in it. (Mason Mastroianni)

10412. The temple bell stops/ But the sound keeps coming/ Out of the flowers. (Matsuo Bashô)

10413. My kids are very optimistic. Every glass they leave sitting around the house is at least half full. (Brad Broadhus)

10414. Creationism: the belief that the world was populated from one incestuous family. Twice. (?)

10415. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. (M.C. Escher)

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The Frictionary # 1088

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10396. The present is a feather on loan from the wings of time that only attention makes beautiful and only kindness valuable. (Maria Popova)

10397. But there is always a "but" in this imperfect world. (Anne Brontë)

10398. Faith? (...) That which allows the intelligence to live beyond its means. (André Frossard)

10399. Singles bars are like soccer.  I run around back and forth for hours and never score. (Dave Whamond "Reality Check")

10400. I never thought that hell could be as simple a thing as a clock without hands. (Albert Sanchez Pinol)

10401. Perhaps leaving and coming back makes you a stranger. (Nicole Cecilia Delgado)

10402. Doubt is the worst of all evils, for it supports them all. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

10403. It's a known fact that the sheep that give steel wool have no natural enemies. (Gary Larson)

10404. I found $20 in the parking lot and I thought to myself, "What would Jesus do?". So I turned it into wine. (?)

10405. Most men who speak ill of women speak ill of one woman. (Rémy de Gourmont)

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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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