The Frictionary # 1083

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10346. You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place. (Maya Angelou)

10347. Being is more essential than having. The dream is to have something in order to be. (Frédéric Dard)

10348. America was founded by slave owners who informed us, "All men are created equal". All men except Indians, niggers, and women. (George Carlin)

10349. Truth is like a naked woman: beautiful or ugly. (Réjean Lévesque)

10350. The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. (Bertrand Russell)

10351. Faith lulls doubt to sleep. (Lucien Arréat)

10352. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. (Frank Zappa)

10353. If an animal tells you it can talk, it probably is lying. (African proverb)

10354. Know that suicide does not kill the pain, it simply passes it on to someone else. (?)

10355. - Is democracy dead or alive?  - We know Schrödinger's dead. (Brooks Riley "Catspeak")

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The Frictionary # 1082

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10346. The will finds, freedom chooses. To find and choose is to think. (Victor Hugo)

10347. The atom is not aa unit of stuff, but a tiny center of matter, swarmed by nearly weightless electrons orbiting at great distances and at great speed. We are mostly restlessness and empty space. (Maria Popova)

10348. We must not despair. Despite the desperate times. The future is long. (Bernard Émond)

10349. There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. (Oscar Wilde)

10350. Words are like bags: they take the form of what you put in them. (Alfred Capus)

10351. Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. (Alfred A. Montapert)

10352. "Live and let live". Except for hunting. (Étienne Marcoux)

10353. The trouble is, you think you have time. (Jack Kornfield)

10354. Dang, every single sheep I counted had insomnia. (Glenn McCoy "The Duplex")

10355. Hatred (...) is like dust. All you have to do to provoke it is to live. (Stéphane Laporte)

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The Frictionary # 1081

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10336. Art is the struggle to understand. (Audrey Foris)

10337. Genealogy: a compendium of true stories. (Réjean Lévesque)

10338. Never, never get involved with someone who wants to change you. (Quentin Crisp)

10339. Tolerance is when you know stupid people and don’t say their names. (Michel Audiard)

10340. Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. (Richard Bach)

10341. Nothing happens as planned. It’s the only thing that the future tells us by becoming of the past. (Daniel Pennac)

10342. It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. (Lewis Carroll)

10343. Ranch: safe house for horses. (Yannick de Martino)

10344. I started out with nothing and I still have most of it. (?)

10345. Success and failure - we think of them as opposites, but they're not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. (Laurence Shames)