The Frictionary # 1167

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11196. The body (...) a borrowed constellation of atoms bound to return to the stardust that made it. (Maria Popova)

11197. In life, there are two things that fall, men's illusions and women's breasts. (Alphonse Karr)

11198. What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. (Burton Rascoe)

11199. Courage is to seek the truth and speak it. (Jean Jaurès)

11200. Money is really only important if you don't have any. (Harrison Ford)

11201. If one day you feel useless and depressed, remember: one day you were the fastest sperm of all. (Coluche)

11202. We would rather die on our knees,/sniffing at a flower./ than live. Standing in line./ waiting for toilet paper to arrive. (José A. Alcantara)

11203. Fedoras being expensive, it's better not to let your head get too swollen. (Christian Mistral)

11204. During a campaign, the air is full of speeches - and vice versa. (?)

11205. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. (Sarah Kendzior)

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The Frictionary # 1166

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11176. It is hard to respond to ignorance, because it has no questions. (Robert Breault)

11177. Feigning to believe a lie is an exquisite lie. (Maurice Chapelan)

11178. Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance. (Bill Maher)

11179. If time seems too long to you, take it across the width. (Grégoire Lacroix)

11180. We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are. (Max Depree)

11181. I would like to know the music of which my dog’s tail beats time. (Yvan Audouard)

11182. The mind of night is blind, prefers voices, prefers touch. (Magda Kapa)

11183. Galaxies, galaxies everywhere/ and nowhere a sign saying this way out. (Gerda Blees)

11184. You know you are too old when you have to scroll to your year of birth. (?)

11185. How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. (Spanish proverb)

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The Frictionary # 1165

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11166. The natural tendency of the human mind is to believe before knowing. (Gaston Bouthoul)

11167. Fun is a feeling, not an activity. (Catherine Price)

11168. In some restaurants, we call "dish of the day" leftovers from the previous day that cannot wait until the next day. (Philippe Bouvard)

11169. Dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. (Walt Whitman)

11170. A word is not the thing, but a lightning bolt in the light of which it can be seen. (Denis Diderot)

11171. It's a struggle to be around him. He doesn't read. He doesn't think about things. He has opinions, but no idea. *(Sue Grafton) *Is she depicting Trump? Maybe not, he takes his opinions from Fox News.

11172. We can laugh about anything as long as it’s funny. (Grégoire Lacroix)

11173. I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. (David Bowie)

11174. The universe is made of protons, neutrons, electrons, and morons. (?)

11175. To philosophize is to learn how to die. (Michel de Montaigne)

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The Frictionary # 1164

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11156. In republics, the people gives its favour, never its trust. (Antoine Rivarol)

11157. Reality doesn't BECOME. It just IS. (Jo Marchant)

11158. Everything sells, provided you buy the buyer. (Mario Roy)

11159. Failing is common, trying is rare. (David Cain)

11160. Philosophers are violent beings who, for lack of having an army at their disposal, subdue the world by locking it up in a system. (Robert Musil)

11161. Until you make the unconscious conscious. It will direct your life and you will call it fate. (Carl Jung)

11162. Money won't make you happy...but everybody wants to find out for themselves. (Zig Ziglar)

11163. The science of the doctor is to find in a patient a sickness that will allow both to live. (Albert Willemetz)

11164. Jumping for joy is good exercise. (?)

11165. All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

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The Frictionary # 1163

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11146. People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy. (Oliver Goldsmith)

11147. Man is not the only one to think, but he is the only one to think that he is not an animal. (Pascal Picq)

11148. He has Van Gogh's ear for music. (Billy Wilder)

11149. The two great secrets of happiness: pleasure and forgetting. (Alfred de Musset)

11150. It is not given to the human heart to love less in order to love equally. (Robert Brault)

11151. Democracy is the dictatorship of ignorance. (Plato)

11152. It is with narrow souled as with narrow necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. (Alexander Pope)

11153. Every time a dictatorship comes to power somewhere, the first thing it does is change the school books. (Jacques Lacoursière)

11154. You never realise what you have till it's gone...Toilet paper is a good example. (?)

11155. Never disturb your present for a past that has no future. (Sanjay Sharma)

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