The Frictionary # 1075

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10276. The effect that quotations generally have: a spark that is confused for meaning. (Pierre Foglia)

10277. Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. (Frank Dane)

10278. The child king is the offspring of a blind parent. (Patrick Lagacé)

10279. I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? (Tom Clancy)

10280. God has been replaced, (...) with respectability and air conditioning. (Amin Baraka)

10281. One of the privileges of childhood is that beauty, luxury and happiness are things that can be eaten. (Simone de Beauvoir)

10282. Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. (Zig Ziglar)

10283. Partisanship is the lobotomy of activism. (Vincent Marissal)

10284. Watchdog: dog that tells time. (?)

10285. Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. (Howard Mumford Jones)

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The Frictionary # 1074

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10266. The outcome of any serious research  can only be to make two questions where only one grew before. (Thorstein Veblen)

10267. We either make ourselves happy or miserable.  The amount of work is the same. (Cornelius Castoriadis)

10268. Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining. (Teddy Roosevelt)

10269. It doesn't matter if you are a rose, or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is flowering. (Osho)

10270. Sometimes we can only/ know a thing/ by the shape of its absence. (Positively Wyrde)

10271. Bus: A vehicle that runs twice as fast when you run after it as when you sit in it. (Dany Caulleau)

10272. I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me. (Elayne Boosler)

10273. The young man walks faster than the elder, but the elder knows the road. (African proverb)

10274. The Lord is my shepherd: a shepherd's main interest is ensuring that his sheep are regularly fleeced. (?)

10275. Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person. (Gloria Steinem)

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The Frictionary #1073

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10256. The opposite of forgetting is not remembering, it is learning. (Julia Kerninon)

10257. Worry is the habit of anticipating chaos. (Joseph J. Luciano)

10258. Religions are only trusts of superstitions. (Jacques Prévert)

10259. If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. (Neil Simon)

10260. We do not find solitude, we create it. (Marguerite Duras)

10261. Illegal immigrant: guest worker. (George Carlin)

10262. Seek the company of those who seek the truth, and run away from those who have found it. (Vaclav Havel)

10263. Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. (Bruce Calvert)

10264. It's as difficult to lower the toilet seat as it is to lift it up. (?)

10265. Thought travels at the speed of desire. (Malcolm de Chazal)

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The Frictionary # 1072

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10246. Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. (George Carlin)

10247. I like the expression "without a doubt" which, contrary to its original meaning, suggests that there is more reason to doubt. (Nicolas Dickner)

10248. The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. (George Marshall)

10249. Reason wants to decide what is just. - Anger wants to find just what it has decided. (Seneca)

10250. When it hurts observe. Life's trying to teach you something. (Anita Krizzan)

10251. At night, some words are grey. (Jean-Pierre Drouin)

10252. I wish COVID-19 had started in Las Vegas. Because what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. (Daddysjokes)

10253. Not all truth is good to say... and certainly not good to hear. (Réjean Lévesque)

10254. The two unwritten rules for life: 1:__________ 2:____________. (?)

10255. Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. (Cathy Guisewite)

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