The Frictionary # 1067

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10206. Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. (Colin Powell)

10207. Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. (Czeslaw Milosz)

10208. There is still no cure for the common birthday. (John Glenn)

10209. The perfection for a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate. (Marquis de Vauvenargues)

10210. When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you. (Nora Ephron)

10211. An integrist is a man who always does the will of God, whether God likes it or not. (André Frossard)

10212. Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. (Arthur Helps)

10213. A sheep can only count himself to get to sleep. (Pather)

10214. The Lord works in mysterious ways...and rarely keeps receipts. (Mike Baldwin "Cornered")

10215. Forgiveness is accepting the apology you will never get. (Kevin Kelly)

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The Frictionary # 146

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1366. Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them's making a poop, the other one's carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge? (Jerry Seinfeld)

1367. The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound. (Pat Elphinstone)

1368. Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more. (Addison H. Hallock)

1369. The future is only a present to be arranged. You don't have to forecast it, only to allow it. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

1370. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Rabindranath Tagore)

1371. Leather coat: fur coat that had leukemia. (Mike Ward)

1372. There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. (Henry Adams)

1373. A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. (Lewis B. Hershey)

1374. (D)iet is a four-letter word. (Johnny Hart)

1375. Modesty is the opiate of the mediocre. (Michael O'Harro)

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The Frictionary # 1066

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10196. If there is an exception, it is because there is a rule. (Gustave Flaubert)

10197. If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf. (Percey Bloomer)

10198. Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief. (Albert Schweitzer)

10199. Twitter(X) is like microdosing the myth of Sisyphus. (Jason Roeder)

10200. Passion is a positive obsession. Obsession is a negative passion. (Paul Carvel)

10201. Long before AI, we were creating high-level intelligent agents: kids. (Michael Levin)

10202. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. (Pablo Neruda)

10203. Being a husband is like being a weatherman. You can be wrong 80% of the time and still hold onto your job. (Ham on Wry)

10204. I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried but they wanted cash. (?)

10205. The opposite of war is not love but compromise. (Amos Oz)

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The Frictionary # 1065

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10186. Contempt is the subtlest form of revenge. (Baltasar Gracian)

10187. The thing most needed to predict the future is a good memory. (Robert Brault)

10188. There will always be enough time until there is no more time. (Horaice)

10189. The best compliment I can give a woman is to tell her that I am as happy with you as if I were alone. The best compliment I can give a woman is to tell her that I am as happy with you as if I were alone. (Jean Yanne)

10190. Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification. (Sarah Scott)

10191. Love is a punishment. We are punished for not being able to be alone. (Marguerite Yourcenar)

10192. When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. (Sinclair Lewis)

10193. To err is human (…): animals only seldom make mistakes; if ever - except the most intelligent ones. (G.C. Lichtenberg)

10194. Camping: where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person. (?)

10195. Religion is a byproduct of fear. (Arthur C. Clarke)

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The Frictionary # 1064

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10176. Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand. (Tallulah Bankhead)

10177. The greatest annoyance is to exist without living. (Victor HUgo)

10178. Why the hell do underwear and socks come in resealable bags, but potato chips don't? (mariana Z)

10179. The hell of women is old age. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

10180. Worry is a misuse of the imagination. (Marcus Sakey)

10181. It's the priests who have demands, not the gods. (Stanislaw J. Lec)

10182. It's hard to work out when you really don't want to. (Jim Gaffigan)

10183. Monogamy leaves much to be desired. (Francis Blanche)

10184. The definition of experience is knowledge acquired too late. (?)

10185. He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. (George Herbert)

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The Frictionary # 1063

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10166. Happiness is often the only thing that can be given without having it and it is by giving it that we acquire it. (Voltaire)

10167. Fear has a smell, as love does. (Margaret Atwood)

10168. Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public. (Paulo Coelho)

10169. Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. (Anne Bradstreet)

10170. This melancholy that women have who sought happiness and found only love. (Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly)

10171. I am not an Economist. I am an honest man. (Paul McCracken)

10172. We detected a radio signal that took 8 billion years to reach the earth and we do not really know what a woman can think. (réjean Lévesque)

10173. Exclamation point: the textual version of junk food. (Florence Hazrat)

10174. The Lord is my shepherd: a shepherd's main interest is ensuring that his sheep are regularly fleeced. (?)

10175. The true enemy of man is generalization. (Czeslaw Milosz)

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