The Frictionary # 988

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9416. Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. (Joseph Campbell)

9417. A cat is like a shrink. He listens not showing emotion. Impassive. (St.phane Laporte)

9418. Trustworthy people never say, "Trust me." (Jim Britell)

9419. A woman's dress should be like a barbed wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. (Sophia Loren)

9420. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness, there is only you. (Cormac McCarthy)

9421. Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. (Yasser Arafat)

9422. Appnesia: when you can't remember what half your phone apps are for. (Paraphrasing Glenn McCoy's The Duplex)

9423. Culture is what is left once you have forgotten everything. (Édouard Herriot)

9424. Old people: chronologically gifted. (?)

9425. Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. (Richard Feynman)

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The Frictionary #987

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9406. I have estimated the influence of Reason upon Love...it's like a raindrop on the sea. (Hafiz)

9407. Architect: Someone who knows the difference between which could be done and that which should be done. (Larry McVoll)

9408. At thirty, a woman has to choose between her butt and her face. (Coco Chanel)

9409. - Lucy: " Schroeder, do you think love is the answer to everything?"

          - Schroeder: "Boy, I hope not!" (Charles Schulz)

9410. Traveler, there is no road,/ only a ship's wake on the sea. (Antonio Machado)

9411. Anorexia is just another word for nothing left to lose. (Joy Behar)

9412. Nostalgia is a joy that remembers. (Émilie Bibeau)

9413. Early to bed and early to rise probably indicate unskilled labor. (John Ciardi)

9414. The older I get, the earlier it gets late. (?)

9415. What is the meaning of life? Stop looking for it. It is to live. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 986

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9396. We prize "freedom to" so much more than "freedom from". (Ken Liu)

9397. Melancholy is a sadness that rests. (Jean-Paul Daoust)

9398. I think I finally understand the Oscars. It's a chance for the movie industry to show people how boring television is. (Bill Maher)

9399. AA batteries are not batteries that have stopped drinking. (Billy Tellier)

9400. Today's problems come from yesterday's solutions. (Peter Michael Senge)

9401. "The human is a social animal". This statement forces me to ask myself, "Am I human?". (Réjean Lévesque)

9402. Words: the atoms of thought. (Carolanne Reynolds)

9403. Awakening gives dreams a reputation they do not deserve. (Paul Valéry)

9404. In the binary system, we count on our fists instead of our fingers. (?)

9405. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. (Dolly Parton)

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The Frictionary # 985

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9386. To be a victim of change is to ignore its existence. (Keith Haring)

9387. I google, therefore  I am. (Stéphane Laporte)

9388. Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener. (Pauline Thomason)

9389. Capitalism is the exploitation of Man by Man. Syndicalism is the opposite. (Coluche)

9390. Mediocrity is a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation. (Tom Robbins)

9391. A secret is something that you repeat to only one person at a time. (Michel Audiard)

9392. In this world of sin and sorrow, there's always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. (H.L. Mencken)

9393. Life is unpredictable weather. (Claude Lelouch)

9394. Tradition: peer pressure from dead people. (?)

9395. I'm not here to deny climate change. It's real. It happens 4 times every year. (Lauren Boebert)

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