The Frictionary # 711

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6646. Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. (Christian Barnard)

6647. I don't care about knowing a lot of things; I want to know things I like. (Jules Renard)

6648, Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi. (Alan Alda)

6649, Serious is the one who believes what he makes others believe. (Milan Kundera)

6650. Memories need maintenance. If not, they fade away. (Réjean Lévesque)

6651. Humans walk 900 miles per year & drink 22 gallons of beer - the average human gets 41 miles per gallon.(Newfylover1)

6652. Work without love is slavery. (Mother Teresa)

6653, The consultant deities
have measured the time
with long winded
arguments of eternity. (Kofi Awoonor)

6654. Life asked death, "Why do people love me but hate you?"  Death replied, "Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth." (?)

6655. Truth is not determined by majority vote. (Pope Benedict XVI)

The Frictionary # 710

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6636. History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. (Konrad Adenauer)

6637.An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. (Djuna Barnes)

6638. Man is not perfect, but that's not surprising if you consider how long ago he was created. (Alphonse Allais)

6639. The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. (Will Rogers)

6640. -More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil, the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die.
- Nothing. (Margaret Atwood)

6641. We only lean on what offers resistance. (François Andrieux)

6642. We are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis. (E.E. Cummings)

6643. A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him. (Elmer G. Letterman)

6644. Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life. (?)

6645. Swimming in the sea is like playing with a giant. (Stéphane Laporte)

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The Frictionary # 709

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6626. Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. (Robert H. Schuller)

6627. There is a reason for everything, except, as far as I know, for decelerating into the passing lane. (Robert Brault)

6628. The reflect is to colors what the echo is to sounds. (Joseph Joubert)

6629. Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. (Mark Abbey)

6630. All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. (Tom Robbins)

6631. There are some pets that are frustrated because they are not on social media. (Réjean Lévesque)

6632. Innocence seeps away
through the interstices of neglect. (Jim Culleny)

6633. Statistics: the only crystal ball approved by God. (Xiao-Li Meng)

6634. Alcohol is not the answer; it just makes you forget the question. (?)

6635. There is no love, there are only proofs of love. (Pierre Reverdy)

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The Frictionary # 708

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6616. Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. (Faith Baldwin)

6617. The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. (Marcel Proust)

6618. A hero is someone we can admire without apology. (Kitty Kelley)

6619. Prostitution: the only occupation that pays less with seniority. (Billy Tellier)

6620. If God made man in his image, he must be a real schmuck. (Matthieu Kassowitz "Babylon AD")

6621. There was a pregnant pause 
Then it miscarried. (Réjean Lévesque) 

6622. Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. (L.J. Peter)

6623. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. (R. Scott Richards)

6624. My blood type is Folgers. (?)

6625. One finds limits by pushing them.(Herbert Simon)

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