The Frictionary # 946

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8996. Always make your future bigger than your past. (Dan Sullivan)

8997. Memory is like friends; it often lets you down when you need it the most. (Spanish proverb)

8998. Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be measured. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity. (Margaret Mead)

8999. The robot must not be too intelligent; he will want to do nothing. (Jean-Marie Gourio)

9000. One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time. (Vera Nazarian)

9001. As long as men will die and love to live, the doctor will be jeered at and well paid. (Jean de La Bruyère)

9002. The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. (Charlie Chaplin)

9003. Telling other people's secret is treason, telling your own is folly. (Voltaire)

9004. Synonym: The antonym of antonym. (Michel Lauzière)

9005. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. (Albert Einstein)

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The Frictionary # 945

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8986. Life is relative. Death is absolute. (Gilberto Araujo de Alcantara)

8987. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. (George Bernard Shaw)

8988. In art, there can be no effect unless you twist the truth. Georges Braque)

8989. Eve never sat up drinking and crying./ Adam knew no one who was dying./ That was yet to come, in the beginning. (Jen Hadfield)

8990. The enemy is stupid. He thinks we are the enemy when in fact he is. (Pierre Desproges)

8991. Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity. (Polly Bergen)

8992. The zebra's shadow is not striped. (Beninese proverb)

8993. If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams. (Jason Love)

8994. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. (?)

8995. It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own. (Harry S. Truman)

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The Frictionary # 944

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8976. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. (William Pitt)

8977. The future is a useful place where you can store dreams. (Anatole France)

8978. Do manatees think walruses are vampires? (Nat Beimel)

8979. To understand the world/ much like appreciating a landscape/ you need a perspective. (Réjean Lévesque)

8980. If the fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom, it is at least the beginning of religion. (George William Foote)

8981. Whoever begs for freedom, it is happiness he is thinking of. (Claude Aveline)

8982. The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. (attributed to Bill Murray)

8983. God invented cohabitation. Satan marriage. (Francis Picabia)

8984. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.* It figures. (?)                   * Alfred P. Southwick.

8985. In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope. (Charles Revson)

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The Frictionary # 943

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8966. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. (George Bernard Shaw)

8967. Immortality: What most religions promise, but only after you're dead. (Michel Lauzière)

8968. I held an atlas in my lap/ ran my fingers across the whole world/ and whispered/ where does it hurt? (Warsan Shire)

8969. The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. (Will Rogers)

8970. The more laws, the less justice. (Cicero)

8971. We are monkeys with money and guns. (Tom Waits)

8972. No one has ever become poor by giving. (Anne Frank)

8973. Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia in the future. (Ned Rorem)

8974. People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or half full are missing the point. The glass is REFILLABLE. (?)

8975. Every tolerance, in the long run, becomes an acquired right. (Georges Clémenceau)

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The Frictionary # 942

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8956. Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. (Jane Wagner)

8957. Many books resemble certain nobles who only shine because of their titles. (Joseph Sanial-Dubay)

8958. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Booth Luce)

8959. When I pronounce the word "silence", I destroy it. (Wislawa Szymborska)

8960. Marketers (...) sell us what we want to BE, not what we want to have. (David Cain)

8961. All those time-saving inventions/ and, still/ 24 hours are not enough. (Réjean Lévesque)

8962. People say nothing is impossible but I do nothing every day. (A.A. Milne)

8963. The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. (Martina Navratilova)

8964. When God created man, she was joking. (?)

8965. Whoever has been able to distinguish good from evil has already lost his/her innocence. (Charles Nodier)

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