The Frictionary # 859

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8126. Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance. (Robert Quillen)

8127. The body is a parasite of the soul. (Jean Cocteau)

8128. How a minority,/ Reaching majority,/ Seizing authority,/ Hates a minority. (Leonard Harman Robbins)

8129. You're not really president until you bomb something.* (Bill Maher)  * Or assassinate somebody.

8130. Do not trust anyone who doesn't trust anybody. (Arturo Graf)

8131. Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid. (Rodney Dangerfield)

8132. And if love wouldn't be looking together in the same direction but to close our eyes and still see each other. (Bernard Werber)

8133. Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

8134. An optimist sees the glass as ½ full. A pessimist: ½ empty. An optometrist sees the glasses as ½ off with the purchase of a 2nd pair. (Shari Vander Werf)

8135. The lie gives flowers but no fruit. (South-African proverb)

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The Frictionary # 858

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8116. Grief is just love with no place to go. (Jamie Anderson)

8117. Being modest often hides lucid mediocrity. (José Artur)

8118. Every star is just a cell in the brain of the universe. (David Weir "Space 1999")

8119. We make a living by working. We only get rich by making others work. (Octave Mirbeau)

8120. Rage is simply one of the masks that heartbreak wears. (Parker Palmer)

8121. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. (Plato)

8122. What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.* (Wayne Dyer) * What comes out of Trump?

8123. Rain/ is the slow suicide/ of clouds. (Positively Wyrde)

8124. Had-been: Former has-been. (Michel Lauzière)

8125. A computer lets you make mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. (Mitch Radcliffe)

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The Frictionary # 857

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8106. God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. (Luis Bunuel)

8107. The seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information. (Marilyn Ferguson)

8108. Death is a bit like stupidity. The dead person doesn't know he's dead. It's the others that are sad. It's the same for a stupid person. (Philippe Geluck)

8109. The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back. (Christina Rossetti)

8110. It's curious how a person can say, "She sells seashells by the shore, and can't say "I love you". (Robert Brault)

8111. Clock: Invention from the yesteryear/ So ancient and perverse/ That, just like time, my dear/ has no brake nor reverse. (Michel Lauzière -translation by Réjean Lévesque)

8112. Promises are like debt - they accrue interest. The longer you wait to fulfill them, the more they cost to pay off. (Jason Fried)

8113. Just took a power nap on a park bench - Made $7.30 in change. (daplusk)

8114. All those crosses along highways. Christians are terrible drivers. (?)

8115. Most often, we look for happiness like we look for our glasses, when they're on our nose. (André Maurois)

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The Frictionary # 856

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8096. An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart. (David Augsberger)

8097. Sometimes, love and desire sleep together. And on those nights, we drink the sun and the moon. (Liliane Wouters)

8098. Repentance is accepted remorse. (Sophie Swetchine)

8099. Masturbation: home-made love. (Michel Lauzière)

8100. Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors. (Jonas Salk)

8101. No matter what happens...somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. (Dave Barry)

8102. My wife adores all things refined...sugar, for example. (Pierre Doris)

8103. If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. (Robert X. Cringely)

8104. In the forest, when the branches of the trees quarrel, their roots kiss. (African proverb)

8105. Courage is fear saying its prayers. (Paulo Coelho)

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