The Frictionary # 877

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8306. People don't want the truth, they want certainty (...) or the illusion of it. (Dennis Lehane)

8307. The absolute exile is staying home. (Dany Laferrière)

8308. People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it. (Terry Pratchett)

8309. Suspicion is distrust without inquisitiveness, it's doubting others. (Rachida Azdouz)

8310. The third leading cause of death in America is the American medical system. (Michael Greger)

8311. You think you can like people, then you board a plane. (Nick Griffin)

8312. Unfaithfulness is like death, it will not allow nuances. (Delphine de Girardin)

8313. "I ran a half-marathon" sounds much better than "I quit halfway through a marathon". (Rich Aaron)

8314. There is an end to words/ but no end of meaning. (Positively Wyrde)

8315. To read is to open the door on the world and never closing it again. (Gilles Vigneault)

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The Frictionary # 876

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8296. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. (Seneca)

8297. Saying bad things about yourself is the only way to talk about yourself without boring others. (Eugène Mirabeau)

8298. If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. (Paul McCartney)

8299. It is in love as it is with all things. What we have received is of no importance, it is what we do not have that counts. (Paul Léautaud)

8300. Politics is a game of compromise - faith isn't. (Cal Thomas)

8301. Thesaurus: It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs to show off its large vocabulary. (Billy Collins)

8302. "They lived happy and had many children", it's never "They had many children and lived happily". (Patrick Huard)

8303. Jealousy and love are sisters. (Russian proverb)

8304. There are two rules for success: 1- Never reveal everything you know. (?)

8305. Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. (Mignon McLaughlin)

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The Frictionary # 875

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8286. The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. (Carl Reiner)

8287. I am what I am, Nevertheless, I am not what I think. You follow? (Yvan Audouard)

8288. ...this life, nobody can contain/ or outlast it,/ and who knows/ if stars know what love is/ or if God remembers anything/ beyond that first loneliness, that first division/ between water/ and light. (B.J. Buckley)

8289. Poor people are hungry and rich people have an appetite. (Luis Sepulveda)

8290. Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, controls people, deludes people. (Mary Alice McKinney)

8291. We travel, not to change places, but to change ideas. (Hippolyte Taine)

8292. The most impressive scene in any spy movie is in Casino Royale when James Bond is in a hotel shower and knows immediately how to use it. (Sophia Benoit)

8293. Failure is success in progress. (Albert Einstein)

8294. Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. (?)

8295. Fraternity has no worse enemy than equality. Fraternity means helping one another; equality means being detrimental to one another. (Albert Brie)

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The Frictionary # 874

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8276. One should always be in love. That is one reason one should never marry. (Oscar Wilde)

8277. Thought flies and words go on foot. That is the writer's drama. (Julien Green)

8278. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. (Erich Fromm)

8279. Before marriage, men would wander parking lots aimlessly because they had no one to point out the open spots. (Chad Read)

8280. Quiet is to noise as silence is to communication. (Rebecca Solnit)

8281. We train to become strong. Why not to be kind? (Kim Thúy)

8282. "I'm going to make a lot of noise for an hour but do nothing." - Inkjet printers. (Eden Dranger)

8283. Why does God get credit for answered prayers but no blame for unanswered ones? (William Lobdell)

8284. The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. (?)

8285. To jealousy, nothing is more dreadful than laughter. (Françoise Sagan)

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The Frictionary # 873

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8266. The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. (Hubert H. Humphrey)

8267. What is love if not the gift of being seen for who one is. (Maria Popova)

8268. Time never stops. Right until our own stop. Our station. Our platform. Time has no terminal. Only passengers. (Stéphane Laporte)

8269. Negotiating with Trump is like playing chess with a pigeon. It flaps its wings, walks in circles, spreads the s--- around, defecates on the board, and then boasts of winning the game. (Pascal Riché)

8270. If you see everything in gray, move the elephant. (Indian proverb)

8271. There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character of a book with those of the author. That term is Idiot. (S.M. Sterling)

8272. Go past the edge/ into hypothetical space/ swim in the ethereal froth/ somewhere out there dances/ the truth. (Positively Wyrde)

8273. A man who doesn't laugh when alone is lost. (Réjean Lévesque)

8274. The search for truth was never a religious goal. (?)

8275. There is no such thing as a synonym. (Billy Collins)

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