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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The Frictionary # 1110

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10616. An intellectual is someone who waits patiently for someone to contradict him. (Amélie Nothomb)

10617. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. (Brad Paisley)

10618. But what is a winner if not a manufacturer of losers? (Albert Jacquard)

10619. Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by the adults to children, and by children to adults.

10620. Life is a succession of paragraphs that all end with a question mark. (Charlélie Couture)

10621. Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. (Erica Jong)

10622. After making love, the first one who talks will say something silly. (Henri de Montherlant)

10623. Reality TV: It's like a photo...of a drawing...of a hologram. (Dana Gould)

10624. Religious persecution is when you are prevented from exercising your beliefs, NOT when you are prevented from imposing your beliefs. (?)

10625. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr)

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The Frictionary # 1109

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10606. Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed. (Erich Fromm)

10607. Chance never does anything by chance. (Jacques Prévert)

10608. To be accurate...'In God Some of Us Trust'. (Annie Laurie Gaylor)

10609. The important thing in life is to recognize one’s mistakes. For example, yesterday I ran into my ex and I recognized him. (MissDéesse)

10610. You'd worry less about what people think about you if you knew how seldom they do. (David Foster Wallace)

10611. God will forgive me.  That's his business. (Heinrich Heine)

10612. Turbulence is the pothole in the sky. (Shower Thoughts)

10613. Colour is the place where our brain and the universe meet. (Paul Klee)

10614. First, we learn to read, then we read to learn. (?)

10615. Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. (Gypsy Rose Lee)

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The Frictionary # 1108

10596.  Eternity is waiting forever. (André Sauvé)

10597. We love, then we lose. We lose our loved ones - to death or the dissolution of mutuality - or we lose ourselves (this is why flowers move us so.). (Maria Popova)

10598. The stars are jealous/ of the fireworks/ but promise to dazzle us/ when they go nova. (Réjean Lévesque)

10599. The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of man. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

10600. Don't love like a bird./ When water dries, they fly away./ Love like a fish/ When water dries, they die. (Kabir)

10601. Twinkle, twinkle little star. You are nothing. You've been dead for a thousand years. (Lynda Barry)

10602. The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living. (Jean Cocteau)

10603. Dogs prepare you for babies. Cats prepare you for teenagers. (Erik Glenn)

10604. When people treat you like they don't care, believe them. (?)

10605. Time is a great master, they say. The problem is that he kills his students. (Hector Berlioz)

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The Frictionary # 1107

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10586. If you want to master something, teach it. (Richard Feynman)

10587. You have the possibility today to be racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic. Just say that it is in the name of the Quran. (Michel Onfray)

10588. We often discover what WILL DO, by finding out what WILL NOT DO. Samuel Smiles)

10589. One day, a wise man said, "You're right, darling". (Laetitia Castwa)

10590. Everybody wants to be liked, often mistaken for wanting to be understood. (Robert Brault)

10591. Being old means being young for longer than others. (Philippe Geluck)

10592. At night/ when it's quiet/I listen to the/ refrigerator/ thinking. (Coyote Sings)

10593. Racism is not an opinion, it is a crime. (Guy Bedos)

10594. When trust fades, forgiveness means nothing. (?)

10595. The relationship between thought and language is the relationship between a wound and its scar. (Hans Abendroth)

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THe Frictionary # 1106

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10576. It is impossible to defeat an ignorant in an argument. (G.M. McAdoo)

10577. Man differs from the animal in that he is endowed with ulterior motives. (Antoine Blondin)

10578. If you eat something, but no one sees you eat it, it has no calories. (Lewis Grizzard)

10579. Men hunt, women fish. (Victor HUgo)

10580. Entropy leads to the heat death/ of the universe & so/ the final diminishment of desire/ I hope  we meet before then. (Positively Wyrde)

10581. Education indeed serves much more often to enhance the quality of elected officials' speeches than their results. (François Cardinal)

10582. Life is like a box of chocolates, because only 2 out of 5 chocolates are actually good. (Jacob Ford)

10583. You can't fight progress.  But I've noticed you can unplug a lot of it. (Funnyoneliners)

10584. Promises are like babies, easy to make, hard to deliver. (?)

10585. One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's troubles does not make it better. (Cesare Pavese)

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