The Frictionary # 171

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1616. Passion is the genesis of genius. (Tony Robbins)

1617. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. (H.L. Mencken)

1618. Today, marriage is an option, not a life sentence. (Richard Corliss)

1619. Sneezing is the poor man's orgasm. (?)

1620. Love is blind and its cane is pink. (Serge Gainsbourg)

1621. The hardest thing with zoophilia is the cruising part. (Bernard Lherbier)

1622. Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. (Romanian proverb)

1623. Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'. Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.'. (Erich Fromm)

1624. No matter how high you heat the angles of a triangle, they will never go over 180 degrees. (Pierre Légaré)

1625. You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

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The Frictionary # 170

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1606. If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. (Katharine Hepburn)

1607. Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. (Murray Rothbard)

1608. Do not stone the adulterous woman. I'm behind her. (Georges Brassens)

1609. Boredom is a warning that we should heed more often. (Claude Roy)

1610. Ring: hole with a rim around it. (?)

1611. Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. (Phillips Brooks)

1612. A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. (Dennis Miller)

1613. The knife disappears with sharpening. (James Richardson)

1614. Who said that perfection was not of this world? A lazy person. (Stéphane Laporte)

1615. The one who comes as a saviour could well be crucified. (Spanish proverb)

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The Frictionary # 169

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1596. Sweater, n. Garment worn by a child when its mother is feeling chilly. (Ambrose Bierce)

1597. Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others. (William Greider)

1598. Women are unhappy because they keep on believing that they can be happy. (Sacha Guitry)

1599. Hope is better preserved by ignorance. (?)

1600. Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on? (James Richardson)

1601. Cemetery: a place where dead people live. (Mardy Grothe)

1602. Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you. (Scott Westerfeld)

1603. When comparison comes in through the door, love goes out the window. (Yahya Haqqï)

1604. Choose your neighbour before choosing your house. (Chinese proverb)

1605. Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. (Arthur Schpenhauer)

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The Frictionary # 168

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1586. No one rules if no one obeys. (TaoDo*)
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1587. Camels and Christians receive their burdens kneeling. (Ambrose Bierce)

1588. A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. (Ezra Pound)

1589. Luxury is not a pleasure but pleasure is a luxury. (Francis Picabia)

1590. I am a nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore, I am perfect. (?)

1591. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. (Benjamin Franklin)

1592. Why won't God heal amputees? (Marshall Brain)

1593. The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. (Sydney J. Harris)

1594. To understand is to love. (Victor Hugo)

1595. The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. (Japanese proverb)

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The Frictionary # 167

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1576. Insanity is hereditary - you can get it from your children. (Sam Levenson)

1577. Pride at its utmost is to despise yourself. (Gustave Flaubert)

1578. In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. (Luis Bunuel)

1579. Memory is what you forget with. (?)

1580. Art should make you interested in life, not art. Art is a by-product of living. (Michael Winters)

1581. The wise man will love; all others will desire. (Lucius Afrianus)

1582. I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. (Steven Wright)

1583. Gods don't kill people. people with Gods kill people. (David Viaene)

1584. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. (Walter Lippmann)

1585. By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. (George Burns)

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