Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Frictionary # 1112

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

10636. It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -Dumbledore (Rowling, J.K.)

10637. I studied all the methods to burn fat and apparently, the most effective is cremation. (Laetitia Castwa)

10638. No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient. (Arthur Miller)

10639. Have you noticed that the "people" is always on the side of the person who claims it. (François Cardinal)

10640. Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer? (Clarice Lispector)

10641. The truth is that there is an incredible amount of drops that do not run over the cup. (Romain Gary)

10642. Enough is a decision not an amount. (Alison Faulkner)

10643. Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty. (JUnichiro Tanizaki)

10644. We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended. (?)

10645. Wrongs are often forgotten, but contempt never is. Philip D. Stanhope)

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Sunday, August 03, 2025

The Frictionary # 1111

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

10626. Since we can never know anything for sure, it is simply not worth searching for certainty, but it is well worth searching for truth. (Karl Popper)

10627. Only the stupid steal from the rich. The clever steal from the poor. The law usually protects the rich. (Carsten Jensen)

10628. Luck is the ability to adapt instantly to the unexpected. (Alfred Capus)

10629. We're only immortal for a limited time. (Neil Peart)

10630. Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand:/ bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind. (Hafiz)

10631. Language is not the frosting, it's the cake. (Tom Robbins)

10632. It serves no purpose for man to win the moon if he comes to lose the Earth. (François Mauriac)

10633. I have post-party depression. (Wendy LIebman)

10634. Homeopathy: the air guitar of medicine. (?)

10635. The past is a broken egg, the future is a brooded egg. (Paul Éluard)

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