The Frictionary # 636

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5886. The universe is a never-ending story that, happily, writes itself continuously. (Terry Pratchett)

5887. All depression has its roots in self-pity and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. (Tom Robbins)

5888. Our society is self-cleaning, like the ovens. It erases what does not deserve to remain. (Philippe Starck)

5889. His house
was built out of 
murdered trees. (Réjean Lévesque)

5890. The days of the digital watch are numbered. (Tom Stoppard)

5891. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. (James Goldsmith)

5892. Being frank is not to say what you think, but to think what you say. (Coluche)

5893. Happiness is a china shop; love is the bull. (H.L. Mencken)

5894. Masturbation will make you deaf...Nah, it doesn't make that much noise. (?)

5895. He who loses himself in his passion has lost less than one who loses his passion. (Augustine of Hippo)

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The Frictionary #635

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5876. Love, n. A universal emotion experienced as an individual gift. (Mardy Grothe)

5877. If you lose direction, go to a higher ground. (Toba Beta)

5878. Faith is not absence of doubt, it is a hope. To hope is to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. (Raymond Gravel)

5879. The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. (Jim Bishop)

5880. Time waits for no man, time is obviously a woman. (Skinnie Talls)

5881. Tell the truth once in a while, so you will be believed when you lie. (Jules Renard)

5882. When you kill in the name of God, you kill more cheerfully. (Marek Halter)

5883. Apple's new watch
Same old time. (Réjean Lévesque)

5884. Without memory, thought is nothing. (Catherine Knutsson)

5885. One day, I'd like to understand the Big Bang. The day after, I'd like to understand wax museums. (Patrick Lagacé)

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The Frictionary # 634

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5866. Truths turn into dogmas the moment they are disputed. (G.K. Chesterton)

5867. Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. (Andrew V. Mason)

5868. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty the youth of old age. (Victor Hugo)

5869. Loneliness is not felt when we are alone, but when we are empty. (Seneca)

5870. My lack of knowledge of cultural idioms has always been my Achilles' neck. (Drew Dernavich)

5871. When a philosopher answers me, I don't understand my question anymore. (Pierre Desproges)

5872. The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. (Mignon McLaughlin)

5873. After cutting the umbilical cord, humans become wireless. (Michael Linhart)

5874. I will marry the moon
and adopt a son, teach
him not to play with the hearts of stars. (Oaklungs)

5875. Love is blind, hate is deaf. (?)

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The Frictionary #633

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5856. What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. (Bertrand Russell)

5857. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar. (Jim Butcher)

5858. Adam and Eve were punished because they were vegetarians. They should have eaten the snake. (Robert Sabatier)

5859. Most Miami residents are genuinely nice, once you get past their brusque urban façade and tendency to resolve traffic disputes with automatic weapons. (Dave Barry)

5860. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Thomas Mann)

5861. He was so paranoid that he cancelled his Twitter account; he was afraid of being followed. (Réjean Lévesque)

5862. Seagulls are born out of the handkerchiefs waved at the ship's departure. (Ramon Gomez de la Serna)

5863. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. (Granville Hicks)

5864. After cutting the umbilical cord, humans become wireless. (Michael Linhart)

5865. A civilized society is one that learns to live with its contradictions. (Michel Garcia)

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The Frictionary #632

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5846. We have the best government that money can buy. (Mark Twain)

5847. Fear doesn't know anything about the future. (Fear only ever has old material to work with.); it makes its predictions out of the past. (David Cain)

5848. Men are just like dogs. They bite because they're scared. (Jean Anouilh)

5849. Solitude: the joy of being alone. Loneliness: the pain of being alone. (Rabii Rammal)

5850. As long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed. (Woody Allen)

5851. Everyone talks about the injuries in football, but what about soccer? I keep falling asleep on the couch and my neck is killing me. (Bill Maher)

5852. But the beauty is in the walking - We are betrayed by destinations. (Gwyn Thomas)

5853. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant)

5854. You must love thy neighbor...the others live too far. (?)

5855. Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge. (Joel Achenbach)

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