The Frictionary # 933

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8866. We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. (George Bernard Shaw)

8867. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will be happy - and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. (Socrates)

8868. Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. (Arthur Koestler)

8869. Reputation: Thing that has the particularity of being fragile when it's good and durable when it's bad. (Michel Lauzière)

8870. If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better. (Hugh Prather)

8871. We never imagined that we had to use drugs to play curling, we thought it was so we could watch it. (Stéphane Laporte)

8872. Some primal termite knocked on wood/ And tasted it, and found it good!/ And that is why your cousin May/ Fell through the parlor floor today. (Ogden Nash)

8873. Schools: establishments where they teach children what is necessary to know to become teachers. (Sacha Guitry)

8874. Riding: the art of keeping a horse between you and the ground. (?)

8875. All information is two clicks away, disinformation only one. (Patrick Huard)

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The Frictionary # 932

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8856. Any time you hear the words, "the end justifies the means" you know that something mean is about to be justified. (Robert Brault)

8857. Art is the signature of civilization. (Igor Stravinsky)

8858. Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. (Robin Morgan)

8859. Be good to your body so that your soul will want to reside in it. (Indian proverb)

8860. To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go. (Lao Tzu)

8861. Don't play with your food unless you're sure you can win. (Bob Thaves -"Frank & Ernest")

8862. Logic: a great tool that is almost always sold without the instructions on how to use it. Pierre-Antoine Véron)

8863. There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. (Vicki Baum)

8864. Sure, there are lots of intelligent people - but most are asymptomatic. (?)

8865. Statistics are nothing but the debris left behind by the History of the others. (Victor Lévy-Beaulieu)

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The Frictionary # 931

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8846. Music is the sound wave of the soul. (Morley*) *aka Morley Kamen.

8847. Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. (Henri Frédéric Amiel)

8848. Tyrants fear the poet/ Now that we/ know it/ we can't blow it,/ We owe it/ to show it/ not slow it/ although it/ hurts to sew it/ when the world/ skirts below it. (Amanda Gorman) 

8849. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see through it but it divides us from the truth. (Kahlil Gibran)

8850. Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. (Robert G. Ingersoll)

8851. Evaluation, to bureaucracies, is more important than what is evaluated. (Patrick Lagacé) 

8852. Beauty fades, dumb is forever. (Judy Scheindlin aka Judge Judy)

8853. The Olympics is the triumph of chauvinism backed by profiteering. It shows the working classes that sport is not for them, but for a genetically favored elite that is probably drugged. (François Dugal)

8854. Smile, it makes people wonder what you're thinking. (?)

8855. Writing is like carrying a fetus. (Edna O'Brien)

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The Frictionary # 930

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8836. Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition. (Hugh Prather)

8837. I can't give you my heart. it's a rental. (Réjean Lévesque)

8838. I'm returning your promises, they're all broken. (Samuel H. Lowe)

8839. It's when you're pushed to the wall that you can see the wall best. (Jean-Marie Bigard)

8840. You see, silence is a political stance: it's defending the status quo. (Lee Camp)

8841. S: Dollar sign freed from its bars. (Michel Lauzière)

8842. When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. (Jared Sparks)

8843. Stupidity is laziness. (Jacques Brel)

8844. People don't fake depression...they fake being okay. (?)

8845. When I fed the poor, people call me a saint. When I asked why they were poor, they called me a Communist. (Hélder Câmara)

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