The Frictionary # 1119

 Here is another page taken from The Frictionary:

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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