Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Frictionary # 1080

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10326. Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. (Daniel  Kahneman)

10327. Mystery: Trump. (Réjean Lévesque)

10328. Stop expecting honesty from people who lie to themselves. (Steven Bartlett)

10329. Nothing is ever without consequence, therefore nothing is ever free. (Confucius)

10330. Understanding requires compassion, patience, and a willingness to believe that good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. (Doe Zantamata)

10331. We like change once we get used to it. (Patrick Huard)

10332. A child will either wear a band-aid for 7 minutes or for two years. (Abe Yospe)

10333. The first man who died must have been totally surprised. (Georges Wolinski)

10334. "Chanel no. 5' does not replace the "Shower no.1". (?)

10335. What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year. (Vern McLellan)

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Sunday, December 22, 2024

The Frictionary # 1079

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10316. Dreams are the oxygen of the soul, and sometimes the helium as well. (Mardy Grothe)

10317. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

10318. Nothing is more identical than what is like the same thing. (Pierre Dac)

10319. You can not find peace by avoiding life. (Virginia Woolf)

10320. The French are satisfied at little cost, a little familiarity in manners seems like equality to them. (Alfred de Vigny)

10321. We weren't always racists. We were always mean, murderers, of course. (Andy Martin)

10322. Entrust the Sahara to civil servants, and in five years you will run out of sand. (Coluche)

10323. How do we know Santa is not just asking for HoHo's? (Jim Gaffigan)

10324. We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget about leaving better kids to this planet. (?)

1025. All human beings think, only intellectuals brag about it. (Philippe Bouvard)

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Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Frictionary # 1078

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10306. The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair. (Steven Maraboli)

10307. Would research advance faster if instead of recruiting researchers we hired finders. (Philippe Geluck)

10308. I like Florida; everything is in the eighties. The temperature, the ages, and the IQ. (George Carlin)

10309. To exist is a fact, to live is an art. The whole path to life is to pass from fear to love. (Fréféric Lenoir)

10310. The question, "What is Trump thinking?" is the wrong one. He's not thinking, he's selling. What's he selling? Whatever pops into his head. (Matt Taibbi)

10311. I like people who choose carefully the words not to say. (Alda Merini)

10312. Justice isn't blind, but many times it doesn't see because it chooses to look the other way. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10313. Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. (Gore Vidal)

10314. I think Google is a girl because it doesn’t let you finish your sentence without suggesting other ideas. (?)

10315. The logical posture for a believer is to let go, pray, and be afraid. (Félix Le Dantec)

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Sunday, December 08, 2024

The Frictionary # 1077

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10296. To search requires effort and a goal, understanding is spontaneous and effortless. (Nitin)

10297. Experience shows that it is much easier to take hostages than to release them. (André Frossard)

10298. On your way up, show consideration/ to the ones you meet on their way down./ The Latin root of "condescension"/ Means we all sink. (Seamus Heaney)

10299. Speaking is a need, listening is an art. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

10300. Collective immunity, if it worked so well, we’d all be spared from the bullshit. (Anna Conda)

10301. Celery is what happens when you tell grass it can be anything it wants to be. (greggy)

10302. For years I have waited for my life to change, but now I know it was she who waited for me to change. (Fabio Volo)

10303. Older people lose their hearing because we're not asking them anything. ("Mork and Mindy")

10304. Every time history repeats itself the price goes up. (?)

10305. Cannabis - Allows a neurasthenic idiot to look like a happy fool. (Jean-François Kahn)

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Sunday, December 01, 2024

The Frictionary # 1076

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10286. If you're not getting older, you're dead. (Tom Petty)

10287. No message is traced on a clean glass. (Robert Mallet)

10288. Consensus is the negation of leadership. (Margaret Thatcher)

10289. An opinion is like gastroenteritis, it’s not because you have it that you have to share it. (Laurent Paquin)

10290. Education pays - Unless you are the educator. (Mary Woodruff)

10291. They called it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken. (Walter Hagen)

10292. It takes one day to make a senator and 10 years to make a worker. (Albert Camus)

10293. Time is static in the mind. (Malachi Black)

10294. Drugstore: Candy store for retired people. (?)

10295. Promises are binding only on those who receive them. (Jacques Chirac)

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