The Frictionary # 997

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9506. The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. (Robert Jackson)

9507. Poetry is always an act of peace. (Pablo Neruda)

9508. We light a candle to remember, except for in the bathroom, where we light one to forget. (Demetri Martin)

9509. There has to be a way of dismissing people's judgment without dismissing them. (Stéphane Dompierre)

9510. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell)

9511. Originality: Doing the same as everyone, but before. (Michel Lauzière)

9512. Americans are like other people, only more so. (Nigel Williams)

9513. If you remember that you once knew it, it's not Alzheimer's. (Réjean Lévesque)

9514. When butterflies falling love, do they feel humans in their stomachs. (marianna Z)

9515. A problem is a chance for you to do your best. (Duke Ellington)

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The Frictionary # 996

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9496. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. (Terry Pratchett)

9497. To submit to the tyranny of inflation is to become its cause. (Réjean Lévesque paraphrasing David Cain)

9498. I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution. (Shaquille O'Neal)

9499. Squirrels: rats in fancy clothes. (Patrick Lagacé)

9500. The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything. (Thomas Nixon Carver)

9501. All over the world, when women's rights are set back, religion is not far. (Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin)

9502. Criticism is (...) always a kind of compliment. (John Maddox)

9503. If God would exist, we would have heard about it. (Bastien Cuenot - also attributed to Plato)

9504. In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. (?)

9505. The door to the invisible has to be visible. (René Daumal)

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The Frictionary # 995

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9486. Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Søren Kierkegaard)

9487. The Chinese alphabet has more than 3,000 characters, 6 more than Game of Thrones. (Brian Kiley)

9488. What might preserve a woman's chastity? A dirty bra? (Henri Calet)

9489. Nature gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers. (William Galvin)

9490. When you don't love too much, you don't love enough. (Roger de Bussy-Rabutin)

9491. Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead of you. (Bill McGlashen)

9492. A confidence sometimes is only a lay substitute for confession. (Jules Romains)

9493. A good friend will help you move. But a best friend will help you move a dead body. (Jim Hayes)

9494. The Brain - is wider than the sky - /For - put them side by side - / the one the other will contain/ with ease - and you beside. (Emily Dickinson)

9495. I feel very optimistic regarding the future of pessimism. (Jean Rostand)

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The Frictionary # 994

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9476. You can fool some of the people some of the time, the rest are fooling themselves. (Thomas McBride)

9477. Life is unfair. They should at least teach us that in school. (Nicholas Sparks)

9478. Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet. (Bill Cosby)

9479. Fireflies/ one by one/ turning into stars. (Seisensui)

9480. The beauty in doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. (Thomas Sowell)

9481. War can only be a good thing for those who profit from the production and sale of armaments. (Réjean Lévesque)

9482. Aviation is the branch of engineering that is the least forgiving of mistakes. (Freeman Dyson)

9483. The characteristic of a fool is not to say foolish things (everybody does it), but to repeat them. (Albert Brie)

9484. There is a Chinese proverb that says that when you have nothing more to say, you generally quote a Chinese proverb. (?)

9485. Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. (Theodore Roosevelt)

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