The Frictionary # 1001

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9546. You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind. (Hilary De Piano)

9547. Love and loverhood can only be explained by love. The sun is the sun's proof. (Rumi)

9548. To be a flower, is profound Responsibility. (Emily Dickenson)

9549. People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. (Haruki Murakami)

9550. Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. (Mark Twain)

9551. What we fear the most is that the natural stupidity of the human race might take hold of artificial intelligence. (Boucar Diouf)

9552. The term "working mother" is redundant. (Erma Bombeck)

9553. Be reasonable in every circumstance? You would have to be crazy... (Raymond Devos)

9554. Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. (?)

9555. Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end. (Leo Buscaglia)

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The Frictionary # 1000

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Today, it is the 1000th edition of The Frictionary. Started on March 11, 2005, it has been published every Sunday without interruption. Happy Anniversary! 

9536. There are a lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment. (Ursula K. Le Guin)

9537. A tradition is nothing more than some progress that succeeded. (Maurice Druon)

9538. Jets came in the night and stopped time. Earthquakes fell from their steel bellies and ruptured the hypoxic silence with advertisements of death. (Will Cathcart)

9539. Who speaks sows, who listens reap. (Persian proverb)

9540. Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. (Lewis H. Lapham)

9541. The writer's art mostly consists in making us forget that he is using words. (Henri Bergson)

9542. Is Florida going to change its name to Floridistan? (?)

9543. Retirement homes: "concentration camps for the old". (May Sarton)

9544. Map: i.e. land turned napkin. (Abigail Mengesha)

9545. Politeness is organized indifference. (Paul Valéry)

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The Frictionary # 999

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9526. There is no past simple, the true memory speaks to the present. (Jacques Prévert)

9527. You never teach a subject; you always teach a child. (Dorothy Height)

9528. Trust is won in drops and is lost in liters. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

9529. Unhappiness is a disgraceful social disease. (Joseph Heller)

9530. We should not pretend we're eternal by putting up blocks of granite on our tombs; they're only there to prevent people from leaving. (Daniel Pinard)

9531. Have you noticed that TV families never watch television? (Henny Youngman)

9532. night darkens/ the river of heaven/ reflected in the frog pond. (Izen)

9533. Fools grow without watering. (Thomas Fuller)

9534. Just before you die, swallow a whole bag of popcorn kernels. Your cremation will be epic. (?)

9535. Friendship is nourished by silence, love dies from it. (Jacques Deval)

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The Frictionary # 998

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9516. If you do kiss a politician, remember this: you are not only kissing him, you are kissing every butt that he has kissed in the last eight years. (Jay Leno)

9517. Machines have no sense of humor. (Paul Fussel)

9518. People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. (Richard J. Needham)

9519. Civilization is the art of tolerating what we don't like. (Lysiane Gagnon)

9520. Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it. (Wendy Kaminer)

9521. [In Montréal] Bilingualism is being able to speak English. (Sylvain Garneau)

9522. Threatening atheists with hell isn't going to win them over. (Beat the Cult)

9523. If you remember that you once knew it, it's not Alzheimer's. (Réjean Lévesque)

9524. Indecision is the key to flexibility. (?)

9525. The older I get, the better I was... (Brian J. Campbell)

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