The Frictionary # 916

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8696. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. (Johann Hari)

8697. You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

8698. Our phones drain the life out of a room. They give everyone a push-button way to completely disengage their minds from their surroundings.  (David Cain)

8699. You hate me because you still love me. (Benito Mussolini)

8700. We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. (Pearl Bailey)

8701. When there is nothing to be done, all you have to do is nothing and it's all done. (Philippe Geluck)

8702. I was married for 10 years. I'm used to talking and not getting a response. This Twitter thing should be a piece of cake. (Heart-choo)

8703. If it is a sin to look at a woman, then hide your eyes, not the woman. (Nizani Geneevi)

8704. Guy to girl: "Are you free tonight?" - Girl to guy: "Have I ever charged you anything?" (?)

8705. Every sin is the result of collaboration. (Stephen Crane)

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The Frictionary 915

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8686. Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. (Bertrand Russell)

8687. I err, thus I exist. (Savielly Tartakower)

8688. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. (P.J. O'Rourke)

8689. Greeting cards are the graveyard of generalities. (Marc Cassivi)

8690. Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. (Doris Mortman)

8691. Love is a sea of which woman is the shore. (Victor Hugo)

8692. "Please hold, your call is very important to us..." and to prove it we're going to interrupt the music every two minutes to repeat this message. (Glenn & Gary McCoy -"The Duplex")

8693. Hockey players lose a few pounds each game...most of it spit. (Réjean Lévesque)

8694. You have to stroke the cow before milking it. (Arab proverb)

8695. I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. (Richard Feynman) 

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The Frictionary # 914

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8676. The thing most needed to predict the future is a good memory. (Robert Brault)

8677. If the jerk doesn't often change ideas it is because he doesn't have many. (Pierre Perret)

8678. One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. (Milton Friedman)

8679. Even when a bird is walking, we sense that it has wings. (Antoine-Marin Lemierre)

8680. Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity never the correctness of a belief. (Arthur Schweitzer)

8681. Do deaf and mute wear mittens when exchanging secrets? (Pierre Légaré)

8682. Yesterday a coyote trotted across/ my headlights and turned its head/ but didn't break stride; that's how/ I want to live on this planet. (Arthur Sze)

8683. Alimony: bounty after the mutiny. (Max Kauffman)

8684. Nobody is perfect. Especially you. (?)

8685. If it weren't for lies, there'd be no sex. (Jerry Seinfeld)

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The Frictionary # 913

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8666. Disobedience, in the eye of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. (Oscar Wilde)

8667. A good deed is never lost. Maybe it is why we never find any. (Pierre-Jean Vaillard)

8668. You're pretty close to perfection when you're standing next to me. (Melodie Kelly)

8669. Religions are just collections of beliefs which can't be proved. (Maikel Nabil Sanad)

8670. Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. (Lionel Trilling)

8671. In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 years. (Réjean Lévesque)

8672. I emptied the vase today, let the memories/ die of neglect. (DylanSeto)

8673. Proof that the earth is round is that people who are flat-footed have trouble walking. (Charles Bernard)

8674. Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution. (?)

8675. Growing old is not growing up. (Doug Horton)

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The Frictionary # 912

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8656. Sin only lies in hurting others necessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Robert A. Heinlein)

8657. I look and things exist/ I think and only I exist. (Fernando Pessoa)

8658. I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. (Rita Rudner)

8659. A smile is the shortest distance between two people. (Victor Borge)

8660. Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. (Orson Scott Card)

8661. Even a god cannot change the past. (Agathon*) Athenian poet contemporary of Plato.

8662. There is a budding tomorrow in midnight. (John Keats)

8663. To wait is terrible. To not wait anymore is worse. (Louis Aragon)

8664. Paradise may just be a pair of dice. (Réjean Lévesque)

8665. The universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack in the middle of nowhere. (Shane Koyczan)

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