The Frictionary # 1110

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10616. An intellectual is someone who waits patiently for someone to contradict him. (Amélie Nothomb)

10617. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. (Brad Paisley)

10618. But what is a winner if not a manufacturer of losers? (Albert Jacquard)

10619. Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by the adults to children, and by children to adults.

10620. Life is a succession of paragraphs that all end with a question mark. (Charlélie Couture)

10621. Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. (Erica Jong)

10622. After making love, the first one who talks will say something silly. (Henri de Montherlant)

10623. Reality TV: It's like a photo...of a drawing...of a hologram. (Dana Gould)

10624. Religious persecution is when you are prevented from exercising your beliefs, NOT when you are prevented from imposing your beliefs. (?)

10625. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr)

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The Frictionary # 1109

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10606. Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed. (Erich Fromm)

10607. Chance never does anything by chance. (Jacques Prévert)

10608. To be accurate...'In God Some of Us Trust'. (Annie Laurie Gaylor)

10609. The important thing in life is to recognize one’s mistakes. For example, yesterday I ran into my ex and I recognized him. (MissDéesse)

10610. You'd worry less about what people think about you if you knew how seldom they do. (David Foster Wallace)

10611. God will forgive me.  That's his business. (Heinrich Heine)

10612. Turbulence is the pothole in the sky. (Shower Thoughts)

10613. Colour is the place where our brain and the universe meet. (Paul Klee)

10614. First, we learn to read, then we read to learn. (?)

10615. Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. (Gypsy Rose Lee)

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The Frictionary # 1108

10596.  Eternity is waiting forever. (André Sauvé)

10597. We love, then we lose. We lose our loved ones - to death or the dissolution of mutuality - or we lose ourselves (this is why flowers move us so.). (Maria Popova)

10598. The stars are jealous/ of the fireworks/ but promise to dazzle us/ when they go nova. (Réjean Lévesque)

10599. The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of man. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

10600. Don't love like a bird./ When water dries, they fly away./ Love like a fish/ When water dries, they die. (Kabir)

10601. Twinkle, twinkle little star. You are nothing. You've been dead for a thousand years. (Lynda Barry)

10602. The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living. (Jean Cocteau)

10603. Dogs prepare you for babies. Cats prepare you for teenagers. (Erik Glenn)

10604. When people treat you like they don't care, believe them. (?)

10605. Time is a great master, they say. The problem is that he kills his students. (Hector Berlioz)

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The Frictionary # 1107

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10586. If you want to master something, teach it. (Richard Feynman)

10587. You have the possibility today to be racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic. Just say that it is in the name of the Quran. (Michel Onfray)

10588. We often discover what WILL DO, by finding out what WILL NOT DO. Samuel Smiles)

10589. One day, a wise man said, "You're right, darling". (Laetitia Castwa)

10590. Everybody wants to be liked, often mistaken for wanting to be understood. (Robert Brault)

10591. Being old means being young for longer than others. (Philippe Geluck)

10592. At night/ when it's quiet/I listen to the/ refrigerator/ thinking. (Coyote Sings)

10593. Racism is not an opinion, it is a crime. (Guy Bedos)

10594. When trust fades, forgiveness means nothing. (?)

10595. The relationship between thought and language is the relationship between a wound and its scar. (Hans Abendroth)

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