The Frictionary # 950

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9036. Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. (Theodore Isaac Rubin)

9037. In order to lie well, you need a lot of sincerity. (Jean Giono)

9038. Florida (...) that refuge of the newlywed and the nearly dead. (Stephen King)

9039. War, is a massacre by the people who do not know each other for the profit of people who know each other but do not massacre one another. (Paul Valéry)

9040. Poetry is the prettiest nickname given to life. (Jacques Prévert)

9041. The worker's week has seven days, the lazy person's week has seven tomorrows. (German proverb)

9042. You can live in the past, but there is no future in it. (Kalman Packouz)

9043. In the willow fronds/ along the river bank/ caught/ like lingering ice-/ a half-moon. (Ôtagaki Rengetsu)

9044. The Bible and the Quran both tell us to love one another. The Kama Sutra is a little more specific. (?)

9045. Taking the plane is an act of faith. It's the price you have to pay to go to heaven while staying alive. (Stéphane Laporte)

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The Frictionary # 949

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9026. A book is a dream that you hold in your hand. (Neil Gaiman)

9027. Do not fear the words once you have consented to the things. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

9028. It is not the sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. (Marge Piercy)

9029. If you're doing nothing, take your time. (Karim Determa)

9030. Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form. (Alvar Aalto)

9031. Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. (Stephen T. Steve)

9032. A book is a tree that is trying to tell the whole forest that there is life ...after life. (Gilles Vigneault)

9033. We always believe our first love to be our last and our last love our first. (George White-Melville)

9034. Be decisive. Right or wrong, make a decision. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn't make a decision. (?)

9035. The 21st century is the century of the belly button. (Daniel Thibault)

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The Frictionary # 948

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9016. Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. (Bertrand Russell)

9017. The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. (Jean Giraudoux)

9018. Prestige (...) causes you to work not for what you like, but for what you'd like to like. (Paul Graham)

9019. When we had our third child, my wife wanted us to move. I said that it was useless, they'd follow us. (Roland Magdane)

9020. The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. (Wilson Mizner)

9021. The fog always ends up giving back the landscape he has stolen. (Sylvain Tesson)

9022. They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likable. (Joan McIntosh)

9023. The difference between a laborer and an intellectual? The laborer washes his hands before pissing, the intellectual after. (Jacques Prévert)

9024. Be someone who makes you happy. (?)

9025. Star: Big celebrity who wears dark glasses so he won't have to recognize people. (Michel Lauzière)

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The Frictionary # 947

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9006. Mistakes are a fact of life. It is response to error that counts. (Nikki Giovanni)

9007. Does God REALLY want to be everywhere? (Réjean Lévesque)

9008. The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say. (Alfred Hitchcock)

9009. The impermanence of this floating world/ I feel over and over./ It's hardest to be the one left behind. (Ôtagaki Rengetsu)

9010. An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. (Henri Frédéric Amiel)

9011. Any sandwich is a panini if you sit on it. (Eden Dranger)

9012. Science is what a father teaches his son. Technology is what the son teaches his father. (Michel Serres)

9013. And yet to every bad there is a worse. (Thomas H. Hardy)

9014. Have you noticed/ that when you enter the sea/ it always makes room for you? (Positively Wyrde)

9015. To live free is often to live alone. (Renaud Séchan aka Renaud)

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