The Frictionary # 666

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6186. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. The price of that is insomnia. (Bob Mankoff)

6187. We live on an island by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. (John Archibald Wheeler)

6188. Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. (Rumi)

6189. A cat rarely is enthusiastic. A dog too much often is. So is a man. (Claude Roy)

6190. How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage? (Anthony Marra)

6191. With the silky hands of longing you tame distance as you make borrowed stars the roof of your sky. (Mahmoud Darwish)

6192. We are the center of our observable universe (that can be observed). So, she thinks the world revolves around her. (Réjean Lévesque)

6193. A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wings. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

6194. I can is 100 times more important than IQ. (?)

6195. Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason, they cannot be destroyed by logic. (Tryon Edwards)

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