Sunday, February 23, 2020

The Frictionary # 828

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7816. You are totally unique, just like anyone else. (Margaret Mead)

7817. It is only when the leaf
leaves the tree
that it discovers
what it once was. (Positively Wyrde)

7818. Knowledge is sailing an ocean of uncertainty amongst archipelagoes of certainties. (Edgar Morin)

7819. Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches. (Colley Cibber)

7820. Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common. (Dorothy Parker)

7821. In the Garden of Eden
the first autumn of all
was called the Fall. (Réjean Lévesque)

7822. Life is not a problem to solve but a reality that we must experience. (Søren Kierkegaard)

7823. Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person, (Mark Twain)

7824. Ice skating is just walking in cursive. (?)

7825. Even a paranoïd can have enemies. (Henry Kissinger)

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Sunday, February 16, 2020

The Frictionary # 827

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7806. Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue. (Franklin P. Jones)

7807. I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more I seem to have. (Coleman Cox)

7808. Happiness: to do what we want and to want what we do. (Françoise Giroud)

7809. A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude without giving you the benefit of company. (Gian Gravina)

7810. Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. (Ogden Nash)

7811. Those who say, "I have principles", most often only have habits or prejudices. (Gilbert Cesbron)

7812. You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce? (Peter Burns)

7813. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant)

7814. Valentine's day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is. (?)

7815. Happiness is somehow what puts an end to the flight forward that is desire. (Paul Ricoeur)

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Sunday, February 09, 2020

The Frictionary # 826

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7796. The keys to America: the cross, the brew, the dollar, and the gun. (George Carlin)

7797. To the blood of black gods
jazz rises high freeing
ancient wings. (Célyne Fortin)

7798. An idea is a textually-transmitted disease. (Anu Garg)

7799. You never know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out. (Warren Buffet)

7800. Life is priceless. Not for Big Pharma. (Réjean Lévesque)

7801. The history of creationism is that it doesn't go extinct...it evolves. (Nick Matzke)

7802. Teaching: one of the few professions that permit love. (Theodore Roethke)

7803. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind that could imagine virginity being a virtue. (Voltaire)

7804. A woman is a person who reaches for a chair when she answers the phone. (Milton Wright)

7805. The answers are always inside the problem, not outside. (Marshall McLuhan)

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Sunday, February 02, 2020

The Frictionary # 825

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7786. I know the past is obdurate - it doesn't want to change. (Stephen King)

7787. Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis. (Theodor Reik)

7788. A minute, that's not time. Time is a moment. That's space time and the quality of time we give to our minute. (Marc Onana)

7789. Dog: the supreme opportunist. (Chad Oliver)

7790. Distrust is a pernicious thing because it slips into you like a snake and you think it protects you, but in fact, it isolates you. (Léa Stréliski)

7791. Depression is rage spread thin. (George Santayana)

7792. There is incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables you to come off as a sane person. (Dan Greenburg)

7793. Coca-Cola: used to indicate the presence of the "civilized" world. (Réjean Lévesque)

7794. If you want to know what makes you unique, sit for a caricature. (?)

7795. Bat
teaches me
listening
is sometimes
how you see. (Coyote Sings)

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