The Frictionary #573

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

5246. You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. (Woody Allen)

5247. Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things. (Thomas Merton)

5248. The devil is pure because he can only do evil. (Jean Cocteau)

5249. Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being. (Rumi)

5250. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer)

5251. There are too many sons
and not enough fathers. (Positively Wyrde)

5252. Politics is the art of reconciling what is desirable with what is possible. (Aristide Briand)

5253. Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. (Zen saying)

5254. The animal which can survive in the desert without water for one week is called a hebdromadary. (Réjean Lévesque)

5255. Only little boys and old men sneer at love. (Louis Auchincloss)

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