The Frictionary # 868

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8216. Those who cater to human vanity seldom starve. (Will Durant)

8217. Nature doesn't like males; they are destined to kill each other. (Jacques Chardonne)

8218. Hope is a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don't. (Vaclav Havel)

8219. If you exclude certain bodily appendages, the only instrument I've ever been able to play is the typewriter. (Tom Robbins)

8220. If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. (Joseph Campbell)

8221. A poem is when you hear the heartbeat of a stone, when words beat their wings. (Jean-Pierre Siméon)

8222. In fact, when quantities and things align/ LIKE is like an equal sign/ and, what's more (4 x 4) is 16's metafour. (Jim Culleny)

8223. So, if I were in God's place, I would take an eternal nap. (Dany Laferrière)

8224. Tuesday is just Monday's ugly sister. (?)

8225. Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. (Zen proverb)

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The Frictionary # 867

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8206. We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises. (Cyril Connoly)

8207. The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. (Eng's Principle)

8208. You can have the last word with a woman, as long as it is yes. (Alfred de Musset)

8209. Boredom is a pleasing antidote to fear. (Daphne du Maurier)

8210. Poetry, that lovely backdoor to consciousness. (Maria Popova)

8211. Irony: people smoking near the entrance of the hospital. (Réjean Lévesque)

8212. By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. (Phyllis Diller)

8213. Willful ignorance is like stabbing truth in the back or maybe even shooting it in the heart. (Mardy Grothe)

8214. I like how celery has dental floss built right in. (?)

8215. Faith will move mountains, yes: mountains of absurdities. (André Gide)

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The Frictionary # 866

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8196. What is time? Things change, and time is how we keep track. (James Gleick)

8197. Words/ are a mechanism/ of containment. (Positively Wyrde)

8198. Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. (Henri Bergson)

8199. Among all the episodes, there is not one where you see RinTinTin poop. (Jean-Marie Gourio)

8200. Adventure is just bad planning. (Roald Amundsen)

8201. The best time in life is spent by saying, "It's too soon", then, "It's too late". (Gustave Flaubert)

8202. The chief reason why marriage is rarely a success is that it is contracted while the partners are insane. (Joseph Collins)

8203. The ear is the path to the heart. (Voltaire)

8204. Sorry, I can't go to school tomorrow. I fractured my motivation. (?)

8205. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. (Vince Lombardi)

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The Frictionary # 865

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8186. Solitude is not being alone, it is being together with our thoughts. (Mardy Grothe)

8187. There is no higher revenge than forgetting. (Baltasar Gracian)

8188. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy long ago. (George Porter)

8189. Period: Straight horizontal line seen from the side - or - straight vertical line seen from above. (Michel Lauzière)

8190. They always say that time changes things but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol)

8191. Happiness is not a story to be told, it's a flavor. (Agnès Varda)

8192. My poems: a handful of dust/ trying to get back to supernova/ like every longing, everything alive. (Marilyn Nelson)

8193. If God exists, he has to prove it. And if he doesn't exist, he should have the courage to admit it. (Pierre Dac)

8194. You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic. (?)

8195. A little dog is really brave in front of his master's house. (Haitian proverb)

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The Frictionary #864

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8176. We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men. (John Muir)

8177. The shortest route from one point to another is to send someone in your place. (Philippe Geluck)

8178. Oh faithful shadow/ by my side all day/ when the sun goes away/ you are here to stay. (Positively Wyrde)

8179. Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus)

8180. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. (Robert M. Pirsig)

8181. Art does not want the representation of a  beautiful thing but the representation of something beautiful. (Immanuel Kant)

8182. The kiss in love is what the thermometer is to medicine. Without it, we would not be able to determine the seriousness of its condition. (Pierre Daninos)

8183. Consulting a memory converts it into a memory of a memory. (James Gleick)

8184. The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.* (?) * Often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln.

8185. I have known many sorrows, most of which never happened. (Mark Twain)

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