The Frictionary # 968

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9216. Resentment, anger, hatred are poisons that you drink and you expect somebody else to die. (Sadhguru)

9217. How can you believe in God? He doesn't even have the telephone. (Jacques Sternberg)

9218. Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul. (Faye Dunaway)

9219. Illusions: Idealized and false views to which we owe our survival, for they allow two persons enough time to tolerate themselves and procreate. (Michel Lauzière)

9220. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Berthold Auerbach or Pablo Picasso)

9221. Culture is a tool used by professors to make professors who will in turn make other professors. (Simone Weil)

9222. Despair is a failure of the imagination. (Wade Davis)

9223. Women are like weathervanes; they settle when they rust. (Voltaire)

9224. Ever notice how they are called "believers" and not "knowers". (?)

9225. A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. (Kenneth Tynan)

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The Frictionary # 967

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9206. Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it. (Belgicia Howell)

9207. War is a terrorist attack that never ends. (Stéphane Laporte)

9208. The Germans have done for the consonants what the Hawai'ians have done for the vowels. (Leo Kottke)

9209. Modern man hasn't realized it yet, but he is rapidly becoming a threatened species. (Réjean Lévesque)

9210. Success doesn't change you. Fame does. (Whitney Houston)

9211. Elsewhere is a more beautiful word than tomorrow. (Paul Morand)

9212. Night draws its plough through the fields./ A fine mist: the breath/ of a black horse, dreaming./ Under its eyelid, the moon. (Susan Glickman)

9213. God made time, but man made haste. (Irish proverb)

9214. Follow your own path. Try not to step in anything. (?)

9215. Having rights is a little like having an umbrella. It's especially useful when it's raining. (Louise Arbour)

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The Frictionary # 966

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9196. In astronomy, seeing far is going back in time. The more you go forward, the more you go back. It's much like politics. (Stéphane Laporte)

9197. We measure the intelligence of a person by the amount of uncertainty he is able to tolerate. (Immanuel Kant)

9198. If there’s one thing poor people hate, it’s other poor people. (Muriel Barbéry)

9199. People by the millions don't know the difference between a billion and a trillion. (Jim Britell)

9200. Optimism is the opium of the people. (Milan Kundera)

9201. Psychoanalysis proposes a pilgrimage back to the sources, but by way of the sewers. (Gilbert Cesbron)

9202. 100% of the people we disagree with are created in the image of God. (Benjamin Cremer)

9203. Traveler, there are no paths, only a wake on the wave. (Antonio Machado)

9204. Other animals prey and kill/ only humans kill and pray. (Jim Culleny)

9205. It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way. (?)

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The Frictionary # 965

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9186. What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the brim of every cup. (Boris Pasternak)

9187. History does not repeat, but it does instruct. (Tim Snyder)

9188. They say vinyl is warmer - is it because of the crackling we hear? (Réjean Lévesque)

9189. The English way with ideas is not to kill them but to let them die of neglect. (Jeremy Paxman)

9190. Love is selfishness for two. (Germaine de Stael-Holstein)

9191. Roses are red/ Violets are blue/ The Bible is clear/ I hate all of you. (almightygod)

9192. Wisdom is the chisel, love is the sandpaper. (Paramahansa Yogananda)

9193. To get an accurate remodeling estimate, obtain bids from three reliable contractors and add them together. (Jim Britell)

9194. They say growing old is beautiful - Go tell it to Keith Richards. (?)

9195. Violence is a cannibal that devours us before biting the other. (Marie Laberge)

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The Frictionary #964

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9176. The traveler returns sooner or later, if not, he is not a traveler. (Dany Laferrière)

9177. If you're not here, well neither am I. (Heather O'Neill)

9178. My God... it's more and more expensive to be poor. (Côté - caricaturist for La Presse)

9179. The US is a democracy only on paper. In reality, it is the richest third-world oligarchy. (Joaquin Mingorance)

9180. Love has seconds that beat more slowly than others. (Romain Gary)

9181. We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance, and wealth with happiness. (Tom Waits)

9182. To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

9183. Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,/ And think they grow immortal as they quote. (Edward Young)

9184. Stop lying to yourself. You'll never fix the mess of cables behind the TV. (Billy Tellier)

9185. What is the difference between marriage and prison? In prison, somebody else does the cooking. (Andrea Newman)

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