The Frictionary # 1019

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9726. Words pale and lose their flavor while pain is always new. (Cormac McCarthy)

9727. The question is no longer to remake the world, but to prevent it from coming apart. (Albert Camus)

9728. There's so many things I should be doing that when I procrastinate, I'm multitasking. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

9729. When you think about it, there is as much natural stupidity as artificial intelligence. (Réjean Lévesque)

9730. Play is the ultimate expression of freedom for its own sake. (David Graeber)

9731. More French than baguette, the exclamation mark. (Pierre Foglia)

9732. M&Ms: bits of chocolate shaped like Advils. (Jim Gaffigan)

9733. The difference between cults and religions? The size of the congregation. (Satz)

9734. Mary had a little lamb/ its fleece was white as snow/ but now, it's a big ram/ with the great big balls to go. (Réjean Lévesque)

9735. Noise never heard the silence. (madeleinebleue)

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The Frictionary # 1018

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9716. There are really many people that read only to be exempted from thinking. (G.C. Lichtenberg)

9717. We spend our whole lives recovering from high school. (Paula Danziger)

9718. Jokingly, we can say everything, even the truth. (Sigmund Freud)

9719. Technically, you're not a weed if somebody wants you. (Mark Parisi "Off the Mark")

9720. If women were good, God would have one. (Sacha Guitry)

9721. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. (John Steinbeck)

9722. Peace is a trench/ a pile of ashes scattered/ over the improbable. (Benoît Pinette "Tire le Coyote")

9723. By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant. (Phyllis Diller)

9724. Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it. (?)

9725. The lie is stronger than the truth, because it fills the expectation. (Hannah Arendt)

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The Frictionary # 1017

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9706. If the city was a body, graffiti would tell us where it hurts. (Charles "Chaz" Bojôrquez)

9707. The real challenge in journalism is to tell ALL the truth. (Denise Bombardier)

9708. Your mind is just a canvas: your life-projected film. Your skull is a museum of memories: your ego a neurotic guard. (Mike Lazarev "Headphone Commute")

9709, Bad people envy and hate; that is how they admire. (Victor Hugo)

9710. Real loss is possible when you love something more than you love yourself. [From the movie "Good Will Hunting", written by Matt Damon & Ben Affleck)

9711. Politics is a bloodless war and war is bloody politics. (Mao Zedong)

9712. Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. (Muhammed Ali)

9713. When we think about it, Christianity has an apple as its basis. (Gustave Flaubert)

9714. An optimist is someone who thinks the future is uncertain. (?)

9715. Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. (Ben Hecht)

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The Frictionary # 1016

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9696. Silence is a friend who never betrays. (Confucius)

9697. Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal. (Ken Liu)

9698. You're never better served than by yourself. I deserve a tip. (Réjean Lévesque)

9699. A contract is a list of all the ways two people don't trust each other. (David Gerrold)

9700. Why do we have fewer friends as we grow older? Because we choose them. (Patrick Huard)

9701. Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal. (T.S. Eliot)

9702. Chihuahua: wallet that barks. (P.A. Méthot)

9703. We hope. We despair. We hope. We despair. That is what governs us. (Maira Kalman)

9704. Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth - Communism is the equal distribution of poverty. (?)

9705. When you say you love God what does it mean? It means that you love a projection of your imagination, (...) When you worship God you are worshipping yourself. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

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The Frictionary # 1015

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9686. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. (Dinah Craik)

9687. There is no urgent problem in politics that a lack of decision can solve. (Henri Queuille)

9688. Children give life to the concept of immaturity. (Fran Lebowitz)

9689. Reality sometimes is the rubber band snapping back to its original shape. (Marc Séguin)

9690. You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R. (Dennis Miller)

9691. The passenger's point of view. He believes the view passes by when in fact he is the one who does. (Stéphane Laporte)

9692. A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success. (Doug Larson)

9693. Bible: The only book revered by so many people who haven't read it. (Michel Lauzière)

9694. The most dangerous potential side effect of depression is poetry. (?)

9695. Maps are/ a kind of poem/ a metaphor of terrain. (Positively Wyrde)

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