The Frictionary # 873

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

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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