The Frictionary # 894

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

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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