The Frictionary # 306

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2976. It is impossible for someone to lie unless he knows the truth. (Harry G. Frankfurt)

2977. The semi-colon: the bastard child of the period and the comma. (Gary Gulman)

2978. Children are unpredictible; they get older and then they die. (Jean-Marie Gourio)

2979. Hope is the last thing to die in man. (Diogenes)

2980. You cannot invite the wind but you must leave the window open. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

2981. Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man. (Leon Trotsky) Also attributed to James Thurber

2982. Perhaps is it better for God we do not believe in him. (Albert Camus)

2983. If I ever own an optician's, I'll have the sign done in a blurry font. (Jimmy Carr)

2984. In the past, parents raised children; today they finance them. (?)

2985. Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. (Joseph Cook)

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The Frictionary # 993

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9466. Usually, the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear. (Lucy Freeman)

9467. It is from the poor people's hell that the rich people's paradise is made. (Victor Hugo)

9468. Why pay for therapy when there are so many members to call where they play you calming music and they tell you every two minutes how important you are to them. (Robert Brault)

9469. Any authority contains the seeds of tyranny. (Moses Isegawa)

9470. When you lower the bar, everything gets lower. (Gordon Klein)

9471. Nostalgia is a trap; the past is safe only because it's finished and because we've survived it. (Chantal Guy)

9472. I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone. (Elayne Boosler)

9473. Children are a treasure. That explains why poor people have many children. (Réjean Lévesque)

9474. Changing your mind won't keep it clean. (?)

9475. A hyperstition is a belief which becomes true if people believe it's true. (Scott Alexander)

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The Frictionary # 992

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9456. Adversaries are in the opposition, enemies are in the party. (Claude Morin)

9457. The mind is a place where the soul goes to hide from the heart. (Michael Singer)

9458. The sun not only gives day, it also gives the example. (Victor Hugo)

9459. If you fail at being a good example, you can always serve as a good bad example. (Jim Britell)

9460. It is not necessary to have a religion to have morals, if you are able to distinguish the good from the bad, what you lack is compassion not religion. (Marghereta Hack)

9461. Art is the stored honey of the human soul. (Theodore Dreiser)

9462. Never go to Costco without a list. (David L. McKenna)

9463. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry. (P.J. O'Rourke)

9464. A lot of people cry when they cut onions. The trick is not to form an emotional bond. (?)

9465. Those who believe power is fun mistake "power" with "abuse of power". (André Malraux)

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The frictionary # 991

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9446. The teacher's job is to sell culture to customers who live under the illusion that they don't want any. (Daniel Pennac)

9447. Potential has a shelf-life. (Margaret Atwood)

9448. It's always the future we improve. Rarely the present. (Marc Séguin)

9449. The older I get, the older old gets. (Becky Kevoian)

9450. Reading is the only way to live many lives. (Pierre Dumayet)

9451. The nice thing about Alzheimer's is that every day you meet new friends. (Ronald Reagan)

9452. And why are we interested in death? It's life's secret. (Dany Laferrière)

9453. You are dust, and you will return to dust...That's why I don't dust, it could be someone I know. (mariana Z)

9454. My mom breastfed me. It was only 2%. (Wendy Liebman)

9455. It's better to be a clown than a clone. (Juyo)

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The Frictionary # 990

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9436. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Oscar Wilde)

9437. This is the great mistake as always: imagining that human beings think what they say. (Jacques Lacan)

9438. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! (Andy McIntyre)

9439. I like games of chance, because there are no champions. (Albert Brie)

9440. Understanding and believing are not the same thing. (Gertrude Stein)

9441. In politics, one succeeds fools and is replaced by incompetent. (Georges Clémenceau)

9442. The early bird gets the worm; the late bird gets take-out. (Dave Whamond)

9443. The more we rise the smaller we seem to those who do not know how to fly. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

9444. A man of few words is usually married. (?)

9445. Even when chased/ it pretends not to hurry/ the butterfly. (Eve Castle)

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The Frictionary #989

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9426. Cheerfulness is the nicest form of courage. (Anatole France)

9427. One of the tendencies I find most troubling in contemporary culture is that of mistaking cynicism for critical thinking. (Maria Popova)

9428. Holding a grudge is like holding a big rock. The more you hold it, the more exhausted you become. You kinda commit exhaustion. (Réjean Lévesque)

9429. In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish - the only difference is the way it's folded. (Billy Connolly) 

9430. Memory is the future of the past. (Paul Valéry)

9431. All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once. (Terry Pratchett)

9432. Having a teen is like having a cat; he shows up only when you serve food and bristles if you want to hug him. (Laetitia Castwa)

9433. On the eighth day man created God. (Nathan Wrigley) 

9434. Weird time when computers ask humans to prove they are not robots. (?)

9435. A thing is not just because it is law, but it must be law because it is just. (Charles de Montesquieu)

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