The Frictionary # 1119

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10706. Stoicism is when one is so afraid of losing everything that he/she loses everything on purpose to no longer be afraid. This is what we call anxiety. (Romain Gary)

10707. Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time. (Carrie Fisher)

10708. All criminals can sometimes be likable, even politicians. (François Barcelo)

10709. Brains, on the whole, are like hearts, and they go where they are appreciated. (Robert S. McNamara)

10710. One day I will go live in theory, because in theory everything is OK. (Pierre Desproges)

10711. Freedom - the feeling that we are free, that intoxicating illusion with which we blunt the hard fact that we are not. (Maria Popova)

10712. Life is beautiful/ I am killing myself to tell you / says the flower/ and she dies. (Jacques Prévert)

10713. You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. (George Burns)

10714. Comment appelez-vous cela quand il n’y a pas d’Internet en Russie ? Internyet. (?)

10715. It is the cause, not death, that makes the martyr. (Napoléon Bonaparte)

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The Frictionary # 1118

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10696. If we ever owned the land, we own it still, for we never sold it. (Chief Joseph)

10697. How can you identify a doubt with certainty? By its shadow! The shadow of doubt is well known. (Raymond Devos)

10698. In the mailbox/ a brand new day/ with no return address. (Coyote Sings)

10699. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

10700. There are times it would be nice to have antivirals to use on social media. (Kent Rhodes)

10701. Went for a run this morning, I had to turn around after 2 minutes because I forgot something. I forgot that I don’t like running. (Laetitia Castwa)

10702. The longer you're on the highway of life, the faster the speed limit seems to be. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10703. By looking up / One does not see borders. (Japanese proverb)

10704. My mind is like my Internet browser. About 19 tabs are open, 3 of them are frozen, and I have no clue where the music is coming from. (?)

10705. In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism.  In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. (Fran Lebowitz)

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The Frictionary # 1117

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10686. Facts will always matter for the same reason that truth matters and love matters: because, at our core, in the end, we believe they do. (Teresa Mathew)

10687. Incivility is not a vice of the soul, it is the effect of several vices: foolish vanity, ignorance of one’s duties, laziness, stupidity, distraction, contempt for others, jealousy. (Jean de La Bruyère)

10688. A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. (Zig Ziglar)

10689. Racism and hatred are not inscribed in the deadly sins; they can be worse. (Jacques Prévert)

10690. Peace is necessary, For justice, it is necessary, For hope, it is necessary, for our future. (Harry Belafonte)

10691. Man is such a complicated machine that sometimes we don’t understand anything, especially if this man is a woman. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

10692. Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! (Simone Elkeles)

10693. Science, like love, is blind. That’s why it likes to proceed by groping. (Jean O'Neil)

10694. Reading can seriously damage your ignorance. (?)

10695. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. (Aristotle)

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The Frictionary # 1116

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10676. Man needs to believe to chase away his fears or to renew them. (Albert Brie)

10677. Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. (Clarice Lispector)

10678. Deep down, an ice cube is water that has learned to swim. (Philippe Geluck)

10679. Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter. (Julius H. Comroe Jr)

10680. Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to the limit, but you don't want to break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its people. (Wu Guanzhong)

10681. Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. (Napoleon Hill)

10682. Those who don't like jokes below the belt should buy suspenders. (Jean Yanne)

10683. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. (Julius Gordon)

10684. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (?)

10685. Eternal love can last only one night, because eternity is not what makes it last, but what abolishes duration. (Emmanuelle Arsan)

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