The Frictionary # 1054

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10076. Not being able to go back is a form of progression. (Frédéric Dard)

10077. The air is the only place free of prejudice. (Bessie Coleman)

10078. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know". (Wislawa Szymborska)

10079. I do support your right to free speech. I just don't support your tone. (Barbara Smaller)

10080. Truth is not only violated by lies, it can also be outraged by silence. (Henri Frédéric Amiel)

10081. Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. (Walter Bagehot)

10082. The sun - Knows nothing of the tree. (Eugène Guillevic)

10083. I bet Yoda sucks at crossword puzzles. (?)

10084. Don't worry about recession or inflation. The US is going into regression. (?)

10085. Silence is the last refuge of freedom. (Michel Campiche)

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The Frictionary # 1053

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10066. Love (,,,) a knot made of two intertwined freedoms. (Octavio Paz)

10067. The sheep will spend its entire life fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd. (African proverb)

10068. I don't m ake the bed (...) For the same reason I don't tie my shoes after I take them off. (Jim Gaffigan)

10069. To envy the happiness of others is madness. It cannot be used. Happiness is not meant to be ready to be consumed, it is customized. (André Gide)

10070. Intelligence is the ability to use knowledge to attain goals. (Steven Pinker)

10071. The heart is but a traveling historian. (Bashwati Ghosh)

10072. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. (James Baldwin)

10073. Women never forgive until they’ve punished. (Delphine Gay)

10074. What's that nonsense about screwing lightbulbs?! You sex maniacs! (Réjean Lévesque)

10075. A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better. (Sidney Poitier)

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The Frictionary # 1052

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10056. When you talk about something that is important to you, you have gone some way into truth. (Louis-José Houde)

10057. It is not familiarity but comparison that breeds contempt. (G.K. Chesterton)

10058. A room without books is like a body without a soul. (Cicero)

10059. For a purely untrustworthy human organ, the memory is right in there with the penis. (P.J. O'Rourke)

10060. He who thinks little errs much… (Leonardo da Vinci)

10061. You can't stop the future. You can't rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret...is to press "play". (Jay Asher)

10062. To seek to understand is to begin to disobey. (Jean-Michel Wyl)

10063. After Adam and Eve begins the history of incest. (Réjean Lévesque)

10064. Have you ever noticed that all the instruments searching for intelligent life are pointed away from earth. (?)

10065. Kindness is love in action. (Henry Drummond)

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The Frictionary # 1051

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10046. The universe of politicians is not a good place to look for moral principle. (Barry Goldman)

10047. Marriage is like the dash in printing: it separates and connects. (Jean Paul Richter)

10048. The selective memory isn't selective enough. (Blake Morrison)

10049. To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. (Jacques Derrida)

10050. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interest. (Gore Vidal)

10051. I can, therefore I am. (Simone Weil)

10052. You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. (Bette Davis)

10053. "Love is madness" Learning said./ "Learning is suspicion and doubt" Love said. (Muhammed Iqbal)

10054. When I see her(him), my heart beats 100 an hour! Less than one beat every 30 seconds, you should worry. (?)

10055. Forgiveness means letting go of the past. (Gerald Jampolsky)

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The Frictionary # 1050

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10036. If God really listens to our prayers. We should think about making them BEFORE the disasters. (LANDYves)

10037. All trees aspire/ to the sky/ yet rooted so deep/ they only share this dream/ with the earth. (Positively Wyrde)

10038. The unknown soldier is without a doubt the best known soldier of all. (Philippe Geluck)

10039. Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat. (Henry Emerson Fosdick)

10040. Never give time to time. (Jean Amadou)

10041. Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence. (Wilhelm Bode)

10042. US casinos won $66.5B from gamblers in 2023 - and they say hope is declining... (Réjean Lévesque)

10043. People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast. (Sherwood Anderson)

10044. The stars are the streetlights of eternity. (?)

10045. Old people repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say.  Boredom is reciprocal. (Jacques Bainville)

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