The Frictionary # 131

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1216. Ignorance of death is destroying us. Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything. (Saul Bellow)

1217. An answer is always a form of death. (John Dean)

1218. Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying. (?)

1219. Who blushes knows a little more than he should. (Paul Valéry)

1220. Love is being selfish together. (Marcel Achard)

1221. Superstition brings bad luck.* (Robert Smullyan)
* or, "It's unlucky to be superstitious." (David Enteles)

1222. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel Beckett)

1223. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. (Japanese proverb)

1224. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. (Quentin Crisp)

1225. Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience. (Mason Cooley)

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The Frictionary # 130

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1206. Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. (Eric Hoffer)

1207. The map is not the territory. (Alfred Korzybski)

1208. If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody. (?)

1209. Animal testing is a bad idea; they get nervous and give the wrong answers. (Stephen Fry*)
* Also attributed to Peter Kaye.

1210. Truth is exact correspondence with reality. (Paramahansa Yogananda)

1211. He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers. (Cameroon proverb)

1212. Imagine how awesome "The Nutcracker" would be if they actually did what the title promised. (Joel Stein)

1213. A man who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary. (Seneca)

1214. Poetry is that animal that runs away when you try to come near it. (Dany Laferrière)

1215. Money: the poor man's credit card. (Marshall McLuhan)

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The Frictionary #129

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1196. We speak only of faith when we want to substitute emotions for evidence. (Bertrand Russell)

1197. To live is to watch others die. (Jean-Louis Gagnon)

1198. Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about (Law of Logical Argument) (?)

1199. If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito. (Michelle Walker)

1200. If you can't join them, beat them. (Julian Schwinger)

1201. When the judgment is weak, the prejudice is strong. (Kane O'Hara)

1202. Life is a traveler who lets his coat drag behind him to erase his footprints. (Louis Aragon)

1203. Planning is deciding what needs to be changed today so tomorrow will be different from yesterday. (Ychak Adizes)

1204. Do not adjust your mind: it is reality that is malfunctioning. (Robert Anton Wilson)

1205. To become a hundred years old, you have to start young. (Maurice Roche)

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The Frictionary # 128

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1186. War doesn't determine who's right - only who's left. (Bertrand Russell)

1187. The point to rember is what government gives it must first take away. (John S. Caldwell)

1188. If you know how to look, a Q is a striped O. (Boris Vian)

1189. If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it's a bureaucracy. (?)

1190. The underground economy is the fiscal evasion of the poor. (Léo-Paul Lauzon)

1191. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer)

1192. Trinity: the word for 'committee God'. (Mgr James Pike)

1193. I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. (Antonio Porchia)

1194. When lawyers take Viagra, they become taller. (Réjean Lévesque)

1195. Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Brooks Adams)

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