The Frictionary # 1095

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10466. What didn’t you do to bury me/ but you forgot that I was a seed, (Dinos Christianopoulos)

10467. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill. (Richard Aldington)

10468. A false mistake is not necessarily a genuine truth. (Pierre Dac)

10469. Are you guys familiar with Satan's little flute? If there is music in hell, I assure you, it is played on a recorder. (Ted Alexandro)

10470. Perseverance is the nobility of obstinacy. (Adrien Decourcelle)

10471. Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard. (Jeremy Goldberg)

10472. The miser and the pig are of no use till dead. (French proverb)

10473. Safari: animal stalking. (Jim Gaffigan)

10474. Dogs have only one flaw. They believe in men. (?)

10475. Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking. (Sébastien Chamfort)

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The Frictionary # 1083

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10346. You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place. (Maya Angelou)

10347. Being is more essential than having. The dream is to have something in order to be. (Frédéric Dard)

10348. America was founded by slave owners who informed us, "All men are created equal". All men except Indians, niggers, and women. (George Carlin)

10349. Truth is like a naked woman: beautiful or ugly. (Réjean Lévesque)

10350. The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. (Bertrand Russell)

10351. Faith lulls doubt to sleep. (Lucien Arréat)

10352. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. (Frank Zappa)

10353. If an animal tells you it can talk, it probably is lying. (African proverb)

10354. Know that suicide does not kill the pain, it simply passes it on to someone else. (?)

10355. - Is democracy dead or alive?  - We know Schrödinger's dead. (Brooks Riley "Catspeak")

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The Frictionary # 1055

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10086. The absence of facts that frightens people; the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. (Hilary Mantel)

10087. The future is not what will happen but what we will do. (Henri Bergson)

10088. I fast in moderation. (Wendy Liebman)

10089. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. (Pema Chödrön)

10090. A country is the sum of its people, and some Americans are really stupid. (Jacob Ford)

10091. In love, happiness is an abnormal state. (Marcel Proust)

10092. Buddhism is essentially a 2,300-year study of desire management. (David Cain)

10093. True friends are the ones you can count on even when you need them. (Jean Lefebvre)

10094. What matters is what’s inside. Ex. The fridge. (?)

10095. Angry is just sad's bodyguard. (Liza Palmer)

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The Frictionary # 1050

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10036. If God really listens to our prayers. We should think about making them BEFORE the disasters. (LANDYves)

10037. All trees aspire/ to the sky/ yet rooted so deep/ they only share this dream/ with the earth. (Positively Wyrde)

10038. The unknown soldier is without a doubt the best known soldier of all. (Philippe Geluck)

10039. Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat. (Henry Emerson Fosdick)

10040. Never give time to time. (Jean Amadou)

10041. Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence. (Wilhelm Bode)

10042. US casinos won $66.5B from gamblers in 2023 - and they say hope is declining... (Réjean Lévesque)

10043. People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast. (Sherwood Anderson)

10044. The stars are the streetlights of eternity. (?)

10045. Old people repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say.  Boredom is reciprocal. (Jacques Bainville)

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The Frictionary 915

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8686. Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. (Bertrand Russell)

8687. I err, thus I exist. (Savielly Tartakower)

8688. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. (P.J. O'Rourke)

8689. Greeting cards are the graveyard of generalities. (Marc Cassivi)

8690. Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. (Doris Mortman)

8691. Love is a sea of which woman is the shore. (Victor Hugo)

8692. "Please hold, your call is very important to us..." and to prove it we're going to interrupt the music every two minutes to repeat this message. (Glenn & Gary McCoy -"The Duplex")

8693. Hockey players lose a few pounds each game...most of it spit. (Réjean Lévesque)

8694. You have to stroke the cow before milking it. (Arab proverb)

8695. I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. (Richard Feynman) 

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The Frictionary # 111

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1016. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. (Don Herold)

1017. Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. (David T. Wolf)

1018. Corduroy: Helen Keller's favorite colour. (?)

1019. Christian hell: fire. Pagan hell: fire. Moslem hell: fire. Hindu hell: flames. If we were to believe religions, God is a rotisseur. (Victor Hugo)

1020. The future is just a f...ing concept that we use to avoid living today. (Brenda in Six Feet Under - 2001 season)

1021. (S)cience and politics don't mix well. Science deals with tentative conclusions and politics in absolutes. (Joel Achenbach)

1022. Swimming is a confusing sport because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it not to die. (Demetri Martin)

1023. There's a lot of freedom in stupidity (...), you don't have that censoring voice of intelligence in your head. (John C. Reilly)

1024. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. (Aristotle)

1025. He who dares not offend cannot be honest. (Thomas Paine)

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