The Frictionary # 1136

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10876. Prayer has no effect on Ebola. But science can cure the chlamydia of credulity. (almightygod)

10877. I love your eyes where I see myself. / Your eyes that are water that dreams. (Guillaume Apollinaire)

10878. There is no life on earth without water./ Because without water, there is no coffee./ And without coffee, I'll kill you all. (Carbosly)

10879. The destruction of a musical instrument is a sacrilege...except for the accordion. (Réjean Lévesque)

10880. To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is the malady of ignorance. (Amos Bronson Alcott)

10881. Love is a river that dries up if it is no longer fed by trust. (Adrien Verschaere)

10882. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it, for a few minutes, including you. (Anne Lamott)

10883. We need to/ sit on the rim/ of the well/ of darkness/ and fish for/ fallen light/ with patience. (Pablo Neruda)

10884. War's when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out yourself. (?)

10885. Like the canyon, I am shaped by what I miss. (Joanna Hoffman)

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The Frictionary # 1135

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10866. It is your road/ and yours alone, others may walk/ it with you,/ but no one can/walk it for you. (Rumi)

10867. L’homme qui ne craint pas la vérité n’a rien à craindre des mensonges. (Thomas Jefferson)

10868. The rattlesnake would be infinitely more dangerous if it didn’t have a rattle. (Louis Sachar)

10869. I've never had a bad riddance. They've all been good. (Brian Kiley)

10870. Being tolerant does not mean that one must tolerate the intolerance of others. (JUles Romains)

10871. When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. (Creighton Abrams)

10872. The one who doesn't know how to laugh cannot be taken seriously. (Philippe Sollers)

10873. Gun control is an incredibly emotive debate and we don't want those emotions to get out of hand, because, let's not forget, one side has guns. (Jimmy Carr)

10874. If the climate were a bank, we would have already saved it. (?)

10875. To work in collaboration means taking half of your time to explain to the other that his ideas are stupid. (Georges Wolinski)

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The Frictionary # 1134

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10856. If Christ forgave the guilty woman, it was because she was not his wife. (Georges Courteline)

10857. When you have nothing to say, say nothing. (Charles Caleb Colton)

10858. Governing is making people believe. (Niccolo Machiavelli)

10859. Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around in a cow pasture. (Winston Churchill)

10860. Memory is a neighbour of remorse. (Victor Hugo)

10861. Tradition is the illusion of permanence. (Woody Allen)

10862. Anxiety is a bit like cellulite of the soul. (Julie Snyder)

10863. On my income tax 1040 it says "Check this box if you are blind". I wanted to put a check about three inches away. (Tom Lehrer)

10864. I think that weekends are made in China, they really don’t last long. (Humour décalé)

10865. I think freedom, ideally, is being able to choose your responsibilities. (Toni Morrison)

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The Frictionary # 1133

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10846. The primary purpose of prayer is to clarify our hopes and fears. (Maria Popova)

10847. There is no worse solitude than the one we experience when there are two of us. (Marc Lévy)

10848. The most low-maintenance plants are dead ones. (Natalya Lobanova)

10849. I answer many questions by not considering them. (Louis Scutenaire)

10850. The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. (William Safire)

10851. When it has come to fighting a vaccine rather than the virus, it’s that in addition to lucidity, we have lost some humanity. (Serge Joncour)

10852. -Dad, what does procrastinate mean?  - I'll tell you later. (Mason Mastroianni "B.C.")

10853. The past is what no longer exists. Living in the past is not living.  It is being dead or wanting to die. (Roch Carrier)

10854. I am one with Nature - on a scale of 1 to 10. (?)

10855. The unknown, the part that comes/ after now. (Jim Culleny)

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