The Frictionary # 1028

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9816. How strange these days when the joy of living is programmed in calendars. (Marc Lévy)

9817. Let's stop talking politics to each other. We used to have no idea how much we hated each other, and it worked. (Bill Maher)

9818. Any form of contempt, if it intervenes in politics, prepares or establishes fascism. (Albert Camus)

9819. There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins. (Josh Billings)

9820. Whoever has succeeded in discerning good from evil has already lost his innocence. (Charles Nodier)

9821. If you say you love Christmas music, all I hear is "I've never worked retail.". (Brandy Jensen)

9822. Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. (Paul Tournier)

9823. There is no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.(Malcolm S. Forbes)

9824. If you usually hit on things that don't work, you are probably not ready to have children. (?)

9825. Revenge is a dish that is eaten cold. But, it's even better warmed up. (Réjean Lévesque)

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The Frictionary # 1027

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9806. Violence on television makes you want to break everything. Except, alas, the television. (Philippe Geluck)

9807. At my age, flowers scare me. (George Burns)

9808. Nothing is more embarrassing than the facts: they prevent us from believing what we want. (Claude Roy)

9809. Distant stars swing close/ the moon rests its swollen cheek/ on our long dark hill. (Catherine Baker)

9810. It takes the whole of life to learn how to live and [...) it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. (Seneca)

9811. End discrimination. Hate everybody. (Elle Eden "Bribes Institution")

9812. Women are like Spanish houses which have many doors and few windows.  It is easier to penetrate them than to see in them. (Jean Paul Richter)

9813. The only thing to find is you. Everything else is on Google. (Brahmadev)

9814. God's last name is not "Dammit". (?)

9815. Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. (H.L. Mencken)

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The Frictionary # 1026

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9796. After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works. (Gwen Stefani)

9797. Memory is the only way to stop the slide of time. Without stopping it so much. (Christine Orban)

9798. When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly. (Roger Zelazny)

9799. Binoculars: Field glasses to see things as if they were close, provided they are far enough away. (Michel Lauzière)

9800. Time is the only thief we can't get justice against. (Astrid Alauda)

9801. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he wouldn't exist. (Jules Renard)

9802. Twitter poll: "I'd be okay with living under a dictatorship. ○ yes  ○ yes. (Emo Philips)

9803. Shyness is a terrible defect, it masks all your qualities. (Patrick Timsit)

9804. Never buy a book from IKEA. (?)

9805. Love is a given, hatred is acquired. (Doug Horton)

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The Frictionary # 1025

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9786. There are no insoluble problems, there are only unpleasant solutions. (Alexandra Marinina)

9787. There are no words/ that make the sound/ the rusty hinge/ of the door that opens/ between worlds. (Kathabela Wilson)

9788. There is such a thing as truth. Except when it resides only in words, it is only a misleading peroration. (Michel Leclerc)

9789. Well-behaved women seldom make history. (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich)

9790. Materialist: Individual who has more things than us. (Michel Lauzière)

9791. Do you like yelling "What?". Get married. (Lindsay Golhvert)

9792. When the wind blows, ALL the trees shake. (Algerian proverb)

9793. Being a God is one of the oldest professions in the world. (Roger Zelazny)

9794. My life is an open book. But it's very poorly written and I die at the end. (?)

9795. The great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. (Adolf Hitler)

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The Frictionary # 1024

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9776. You don't need a night cream. Ingredients do not know the time of day. (Fayne L. Frey)

9777. Why do we have fewer friends as we grow older? Because they die. (Réjean Lévesque)

9778. You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectations. (Bette Davis)

9779. To what shall I liken this world?/ moonlight reflected in the dewdrops/ shaken from a crane's bill. (Dôgen)

9780. Education is the only vaccine for violence. (Edward James Olmos)

9781. Writing History is to mess with Geography. (Daniel Pennac)

9782. I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had. (Margaret Mead)

9783. Just because we don’t talk doesn’t mean we want to listen to other people. (Philippe Geluck)

9784. People who can't communicate think everything is an argument. (?)

9785. Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter. (Nadine Gordimer)

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