The Frictionary # 1174

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11266. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.. (Edward Abbey)

11267. When we love, we always love too much. (Marcel Achard)

11268. The Greeks used to wrestle in the nude - they'd still do it if you'd let them. (Brett Butt)

11269. Notre Père, que ton nom soit programmé. (Yves Cailhier)

11270. Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends. (Joseph Campbell)

11271. Certaines personnes ont tellement honte d'emprunter qu'elles n'osent pas rendre. (Frédéric Dard)

11272. A timid question will always receive a confident answer. (Charles John Darling)

11273. The work that you carried in yourself always seems more beautiful than the one you made. (Alphonse Daudet)

11274. Ecology is the study of who eats whom. (?)

11275. The truth needs so little rehearsal. (Barbara Kingsolver)

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The Frictionary # 1173

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11256. What can't be named is eternal/ Naming splits  the eternal to smithereens. (Lao Tzu)

11257. Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses. (Wendy Liebman)

11258. A man whom one has loved with love rarely deserves to be loved with friendship. (Claire Martin)

11259. In a way, I think religion is to be admired for asking the right questions. I just think it's got the wrong answers. (Richard Dawkins)

11260. We don’t undergo the future, we make it, (Georges Bernanos)

11261. Fall, the two days between summer and winter. (Eli Grober)

11262. We know that an era has become unbearable when irony is no longer appropriate. (Dany Laferrière)

11263. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. (Cyril Connolly)

11264. You're old when you hear your favorite song on the elevator. (?)

11265. The two most dismal sciences: psychiatry and history; one studies the weaknesses of man, the other the weaknesses of mankind. (Michel Campiche)

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The Frictionary # 1172

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11246. The only time really wasted is when we spend time regretting the missed opportunities. (Grégire Lacroix)

11247. I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people. (Savielly Tartakower)

11248.  A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it. (Carolyn Heilbrun)

11249. Those who have inner beauty and outer beauty are reversible people. (Philippe Geluck)

11250. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. (Robert Frost)

11251. There are no popular governments. To govern is to dissatisfy. (Anatole France)

11252. Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. (John Fowles)

11253. What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards. (Milos Forman)

11254. Dignity is one thhing that alcohol does not preserve. (?)

11255. I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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