The Frictionary # 807

Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

7606. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. (Terry Pratchett)

7607. A rich person is never rich enough to consent to be a little less rich. (André Frossard)

7608. We attribute our successes and failures to choices - (...) - and we tend to think of choices as causes rather than effects. (David Cain)

7609. Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. (Robert Brault)

7610. Learn to die! Why? We get it right easily the first time around. (Sébastien Chamfort)

7611. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody. (Herbert Bayard Swope)

7612. ...inside me was the stillness a bell possesses
just after it has been rung, before the metal
begins to long again for the clapper's stroke. (Brigit Pegeen Kelly)

7613. By sacrificing the essential to the urgency, we end up forgetting the urgency of what's essential. (Edgar Morin)

7614. I think sugar affects memory. I can't remember how many cookies I ate. (Réjean Lévesque)

7615. Invention is the mother of necessity. (Thorstein Veblen)

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