The Frictionary # 924

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8776. Criticism is a privilege that you earn - it shouldn't be your opening move in an interaction. (Malcolm Gladwell)

8777. Las Vegas is not a town, it's a game. The Strip is not a street, it's a decor. (Stéphane Laporte)

8778. When somebody has a physical disability everyone carefully avoids mentioning it until they get mad with him, and then it's the first thing they bring up. (Albert E. Cowdrey)

8779. Sidereal space is full of emptiness. (Réjean Lévesque)

8780. Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. (L.J. Peter)

8781. Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

8782. Honor, like virginity, can only be used once. (Georges Clémenceau)

8783. The peace sign is with two fingers, not one. (Meg Cabot)

8784. You spend most of your life inside your head. Make it a nice place to be. (?)

8785. The sun never sees its shadow. (Leonardo da Vinci)

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The Frictionary # 923

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8766. Proverbs are the children of experience. (Proverb)

8767. Mistakes pass; only truth remains. (Denis Diderot)

8768. Every love is a franchise of grief, for to love something is to accept its loss. (Maria Popova)

8769. Stalkers may pass, the revulsion remains. (Rima Elkouri)

8770. Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. (William Ralph Inge)

8771. It's always the first step which is hard; even when stepping back. (Réjean Lévesque)

8772. Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. (Gwendolyn Brooks)

8773. Happiness, like wealth, has its own parasites. (Rémy de Gourmont)

8774. Sometimes, the first step to forgiveness is understanding that the other is an idiot. (?)

8775. Music is always ready to listen to you. (Wassi)

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The Frictionary # 922

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8756. All generalizations are false, including this one. (Alexander Chase)

8757. Historians only accurately predict the past. (Pierre Chaunu)

8758. Love doesn't die, people do/ So, when all that's left of me is love,/ give me away. (Merrit Malloy)

8759. Love is like soup: the first spoonfuls are too hot, the last ones too cold. (Jeanne Moreau)

8760. Death is the least civilized rite of passage. (Louise Erdrich)

8761. The best way to talk to women is to listen to them. (André-Philippe Côté)

8762. Midnight at the zoo/ some of the giraffes/ chewing on the stars. (Coyote Sings)

8763. It's always better to shut up when opening your heart, you avoid the draft. (Pierre Foglia)

8764. So...you've been eating hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and processed meat all your life. But you won't get the shot, because you don't know what's in it! Aren't you a special kind of stupid? (?)

8765. When old you know more things, but you forget them. It balances out. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 921

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8746. Mass movement can rise and spread without a belief in God, but never without belief in a devil. (Eric Hoffer)

8747. Someone is Hindu, someone is Muslim, someone is Christian. Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being. (Nida Fazli)

8748. Fashion shows just look like skinny teenagers walking around in their parents' clothes looking for food. (Jim Gaffigan)

8749. To hope is mainly to doubt. (Charles Soucy)

8750. In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal bread. (Thomas Paine)

8751. Douchebag: attendant to the tanning of his own ego. (Billy Tellier)

8752. How much of now's/ a touch of never,/ a gasp of vastness/ like the end of was. (Christian Wiman)

8753. The devil is only God's idleness. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

8754. Men go shopping to buy what they want, and women go shopping to find out what they want. (?)

8755. Change is never painful, only resistance to change is. (Buddha)

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