The Frictionary #627

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5796. If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. (Norman Thomas)

5797. History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. (Ted Koppel)

5798. France is the only country in the world where the customer is never right. (Jacques Benoît)

5799. Never judge a painting or a woman by candlelight. (Italian proverb)

5800. NOW moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, NOW isn't THEN. (Ursula Le Guin)

5801. Bathroom scale: Scale, useless if you own a big mirror. (Michel Lauzière)

5802. You can't save your ass and your face at the same time. (James Dowler Gow)

5803. So few the grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance. (Jane Hirschfield)

5804. I don't really visit strip joints because it gets quite expensive just to look into a girl's eyes.(Martin Perizzolo)

5805. Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance. (Morris Kline)

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The Frictionary #626

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5786. The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. (Erich Fromm)

5787. To try to be brave is to be brave. (George MacDonald)

5788. You can become a terrorist because you are revolted, (...). But also because the people around you aren't. (Pierre Foglia)

5789. Water which is too pure has no fish. (Ts'ai Ken T'an)

5790. The rat race creates a race of rats. (Matt McNeely)

5791. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. (Swami Sivânanda)

5792. Five out of four people have trouble with fractions. (Steven Wright)

5793. Silently, one by one,
in the infinite meadows of the heaven,
blossomed the lovely stars,
the forget-me-nots of the angels. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

5794. I do not think - therefore I am not. (?)

5795. Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

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The Frictionary #625

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5776. Some people never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. (Alexander Pope)

5777. Despite the increasing complexity of the task, parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. (Alvin Toffler)

5778. Moon, what dark spirit
dangles from a twine
in the night
your visage and outline. (Alfred de Musset)

5779. If you ignore a poem, it may leave you for someone else. (Grant Snider)

5780. What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions? (Stephen Hawking)

5781. Politics isn't complicated. All you need is a clean conscience, and to do that you need a bad memory. (Coluche)

5782. Using acupuncture needles with the voodoo doll might be counterproductive. (Réjean Lévesque)

5783. Madness is defined in different ways at different times, sanity being the ability to keep up with the changes. (Robert Brault)

5784. Nothing ever is. Everything is becoming. (Heraclitus)

5785. Are you afraid of Syrian refugees? 38% of them are 11 years old or less. (?)

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The Frictionary #624

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5766. Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time. (Thomas Carlyle)

5767. It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. (Eric Hoffer)

5768. Universal suffrage only allows the mediocre to make decisions. (Claude Vorilhon aka Raël)

5769. Modesty is only arrogance by stealth. (Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter)

5770. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. (Samuel Johnson)

5771. Calendar: The publication of the year. (Michel Lauzière)

5772. Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom. (Jennifer Stone)

5773. Upon reflection
the mirror and I
disagree again. (Slym Being)

5774. The Universe is and always has been. It is eternal. It is God. We are in the Universe (though only specks), so we are God. (Réjean Lévesque)

5775. The pen of the tongue should be dipped in the ink of the heart. (Chinese proverb)

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