The Frictionary # 1121

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10726. Marriage is like the restaurant: barely served, one looks at what’s on the neighbor’s plate. (Sacha Guitry)

10727. Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. (Dave Barry)

10728. You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather. (Pema Chodron)

10729. God puts out the sun by dunking it in the ocean/like a match dropped/into a glass. (Corey Van Landingham)

10730. 70% of breakups are initiated by women. Either women know how to recognize that their relationship is over, or guys, they learn it. (Louis T)

10731. My biggest fear about becoming a zombie is all the walking. (Gashley Madison)

10732. One can suspect the finger of God, because he has placed it in his eye indisputably by creating the world. (Paul Bourget)

10733. God was never married (...). It's easy to be all-knowing when you don't have a wife. (Jim Gaffigan)

10734. When one door closes, another opens. Or you can open the closed door. That's how doors work. (?)

10735. The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see. (Adrienne Rich)

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The Frictionary # 1120

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10716. Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. (Daniel Gilbert)

10717. One can forgive, but forgetting is impossible. (Honoré de Balzac)

10718. Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels. (Abraham Verghese)

10719. Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

10720. Books are embalmed minds. (Christian N. Bovee)

10721. It’s not people who change, it’s masks that fall off. (Masahi Kishimoto)

10722. We use 10% of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60%. (Ellen DeGeneres)

10723. Politics is the art of tapping other people's passions to one's profit. (Henri de Montherlant)

10724. If today is the worst day of your life, then you know tomorrow will be better. (?)

10725. The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. (Gloria Steinem)

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The Frictionary # 1119

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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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The Frictionary # 1118

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10696. If we ever owned the land, we own it still, for we never sold it. (Chief Joseph)

10697. How can you identify a doubt with certainty? By its shadow! The shadow of doubt is well known. (Raymond Devos)

10698. In the mailbox/ a brand new day/ with no return address. (Coyote Sings)

10699. And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

10700. There are times it would be nice to have antivirals to use on social media. (Kent Rhodes)

10701. Went for a run this morning, I had to turn around after 2 minutes because I forgot something. I forgot that I don’t like running. (Laetitia Castwa)

10702. The longer you're on the highway of life, the faster the speed limit seems to be. (Bob Thaves "Frank & Ernest")

10703. By looking up / One does not see borders. (Japanese proverb)

10704. My mind is like my Internet browser. About 19 tabs are open, 3 of them are frozen, and I have no clue where the music is coming from. (?)

10705. In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism.  In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy. (Fran Lebowitz)

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The Frictionary # 1117

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10686. Facts will always matter for the same reason that truth matters and love matters: because, at our core, in the end, we believe they do. (Teresa Mathew)

10687. Incivility is not a vice of the soul, it is the effect of several vices: foolish vanity, ignorance of one’s duties, laziness, stupidity, distraction, contempt for others, jealousy. (Jean de La Bruyère)

10688. A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. (Zig Ziglar)

10689. Racism and hatred are not inscribed in the deadly sins; they can be worse. (Jacques Prévert)

10690. Peace is necessary, For justice, it is necessary, For hope, it is necessary, for our future. (Harry Belafonte)

10691. Man is such a complicated machine that sometimes we don’t understand anything, especially if this man is a woman. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

10692. Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! (Simone Elkeles)

10693. Science, like love, is blind. That’s why it likes to proceed by groping. (Jean O'Neil)

10694. Reading can seriously damage your ignorance. (?)

10695. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. (Aristotle)

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The Frictionary # 1116

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10676. Man needs to believe to chase away his fears or to renew them. (Albert Brie)

10677. Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. (Clarice Lispector)

10678. Deep down, an ice cube is water that has learned to swim. (Philippe Geluck)

10679. Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer’s daughter. (Julius H. Comroe Jr)

10680. Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to the limit, but you don't want to break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its people. (Wu Guanzhong)

10681. Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. (Napoleon Hill)

10682. Those who don't like jokes below the belt should buy suspenders. (Jean Yanne)

10683. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. (Julius Gordon)

10684. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. (?)

10685. Eternal love can last only one night, because eternity is not what makes it last, but what abolishes duration. (Emmanuelle Arsan)

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The Frictionary # 1115

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10666. When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. (G.K. Chesterton)

10667. It's Hell, it's Heaven: the amount you earn/ Determines if you play the harp or burn. (Bertolt Brecht)

10668. I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?". (Eve Merriam)

10669. The essential is constantly threatened by the insignificant. (René Char)

10670. It will be yet the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. (George W. Foote)

10671. Don't be misled by fanatics who say/ That only one truth should be stated:/ Truth is constructed in such a way/ That it can't be exaggerated. (Piet Hein)

10672. A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. (Daniel J. Boorstin)

10673. Aging is annoying because we don’t know when it started and even less when it will end. (Bernard Pivot)

10674. In the category of the great scams of this world: the price of razor blades. (?)

10675. If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. (Jack Kerouac)

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