The Frictionary # 894

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8476. The only certainty is that nothing is certain. (Pliny the Elder)

8477. Intelligence - the ability to recognize our stupidity. (Paul Valéry)

8478. There are two ways to slide easily through life, to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. (Alfred Korzybski)

8479. We wear the cape of civilization/ But our souls live in the stone age. (Nizar Qabbani)

8480. Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. (Orson Welles)

8481. Why don't aliens keep the people they abduct? Why would they keep gullible morons? (Réjean Lévesque)

8482. How many pessimists end up desiring the things they fear, to prove that they are right? (Robert Mallet)

8483. The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them. (Karl Kraus)

8484. Love is like war: it always starts with a declaration. (?)

8485. When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.* (H. Jackson Brown Jr.) * After the pandemic is behind us.

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The Frictionary # 893

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8466. It's true that voting isn't the most we can do - but it's the least. (Gloria Steinem)

8467. Eternity is the present moment constantly renewed. (Réjean Lévesque)

8468. Language is/ the straw we use/ to make bricks/ out of the clay/ of the world. (Nils Peterson)

8469. Can we ever know where indifference begins and ends? (Serge Gainsbourg)

8470. I am a collection of dismantled almosts. (Anne Sexton)

8471. Some want to live a great love like those in movies, but they forget that a movie lasts an hour and a half. (J.K. Pivard) 

8472. If ignorance could speak, it would say, 'I know all that I need to know'. (Mardy Grothe)

8473. It piques our curiosity when we discover that our family tree is a cactus. (Grégoire Lacroix)

8474. A wise man once said nothing. (?)

8475. Diversity is being invited to the party; inclusion is being asked to dance. (Verna Myers)

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The Frictionary # 892

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8456. The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis. (Thurgood Marshall)

8457. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. (Fernando Pessoa)

8458. My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do. (Francine Jay)

8459. Breast: a knee wearing a sombrero. (Fred Dubé)

8460. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off once in a while, or the light won't come in. (Isaac Asimov)

8461. Fear does not prevent death, it prevents life. (Naguib Mahfouz)

8462. accept all of life in your chest./ death is the end of percussion./ breathe deeply, the music/ will function. listen close. (Lenelle Moïse)

8463. The tourists' greatest handicap is that they are sheep. (Pierre Foglia)

8464. Once in a while we have to wait for our souls to catch up. (African proverb)

8465. Culture does not consist in acquiring opinions but in getting rid of them. (W.B. Yeats)

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The Frictionary # 891

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8446. Some people have very long toes making it extremely easy to step on them. (Mardy Grothe)

8447. Only men and women are haunted, never the houses. (Maxime Chattam)

8448. Voters don't decide issues. They decide who will decide issues. (George F. Will)

8449. Before healing someone, ask him if he is ready to abandon the things that make him sick. (Hippocrates)

8450. Gravity has an unusually powerful effect on soccer players. (Dave Barry)

8451. Honor is like an island, rugged and without a shore, once we have left it, we can never return. (Nicolas Boileau)

8452. So many gods, so many creeds. So many paths that wind and wind. While just the act of being kind is all the sad world needs. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

8453. There is no fear without hope and no hope without some fear. (Baruch Spinoza)

8454. The past, the present, and the future walk into a bar. It was tense. (?)

8455. All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. (Alexander Herzen)

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The Frictionary 890

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8436. This thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. (Mary Pickford)

8437. A woman never finds the man who loves her very intelligent. (Paul Léautaud)

8438. - How can you tell economists have a sense of humor? - They use decimal points. (William F. Simon)

8439. Pug: a thing with four legs and two rear ends. (Piere-Yves Roy-Desmarais)

8440. In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterward that causes the problems. (Shelley Winters)

8441. The more I know about men the more I like dogs. (Germaine Stael- Holstein* - also attributed to Gloria Allred) * aka Mme de Stael.

8442. I eat no for breakfast. (Kamala Harris)

8443. The dead are lucky: they only see their family once a year, All Saint's Day. (Pierre Doris)

8444. We are not all in the same boat, but we are all in the same storm. (?)

8445. Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it beats breaking them. (Learned Hand)

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