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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