The Frictionary # 1146

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10976. Remember, kid, if the service is free, then YOU are the product. (John Darkow)

10977. Remembering is easy for those who have memory, but forgetting is difficult for those who have heart. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

10978. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce)

10979. Giving a name to a person or a thing is a sacrament, a baptism. (Réjean Lévesque)

10980. People often claim to hunger for the truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up. (George R.R. Martin)

10981. All life is an adventure navigating between the unhoped-for and the unexpected. (François Cheng)

10982. 0=the nothing that is. (Robert Kaplan)

10983. Only the skin separates love from friendship. It’s thin. (Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

10984. Monday must be a man. It comes too quickly. (?)

10985. I listened to the voice of doubt and it told me its true name is curiosity. (Micah J. Murray)

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The Frictionary # 1145

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10966. Hatred is a poison served in three cups. The first is when people despise those they desire — (,,,) The second is when people loathe those they do not understand. (...) the third kind — when people hate those they have hurt. (Elif Shafak)

10967. Tweets are brain selfies. (Justin Shaista)

10968. Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy. (Salman Rushdie)

10969. Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions. (Clinton Rossiter)

10970. Moonlit pond/ a frog jumps/ from star to star. (Chen-Ou-Liu)

10971. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. (G.K. Chesterton)

10972. You realize you have become a specialist when the things you talk about with pleasure bore your listeners. (Gilbert Cesbron)

10973. A goal without a plan is just a wish. (Larry Elder)

10974. Warning! The consumption of wine might cause you to think you can sing. (?)

10975. Journalists are like children. They ask big questions and settle for small answers. (Philippe Bouvard)

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The Frictionary # 1144

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10956. Belief is the uncritical acceptance of something that you can't prove. (Hans Holzer)

10957. Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. (William Gaddis)

10958. Biting is easy, but it is only a dog's talent. (Hervé Bazin)

10959. Peace has a mind of its own, and doesn't follow victory around. (Norman Corwin)

10960. If humans have made sex a permanent function, contrary to other animals who do it in season, it's because they're desperate. (Claire Martin)

10961. The secret of happiness is something to do. (John Burroughs)

10962. Marriage is two plane tickets to an unknown island; you come back swimming or never. (Félix Leclerc)

10963. Innocence is almost ignorance. (Réjean Lévesque)

10964. It's called faith because it's not knowledge. (?)

10965. Expectation is the source of all heartache. (William Shakespeare)

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The Frictionary # 1143

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10946. I am the only person I know without an accent. (Gregory Cramer)

10947. Charm: a way to hear oneself answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. (Albert Camus)

10948. The six stages of drunkenness: Verbose, Jocose, Morose, Lachrymose, Bellicose, and Comatose. (Sara Hutchinson)

10949. Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

10950. Religion is a byproduct of fear. (Arthur C. Clarke)

10951. People who look constipated are often the shittiest. (Bruno Masure)

10952. The reward for good work is more work. (Francesca Elisia)

10953. We measure an individual’s intelligence by the amount of uncertainties he is capable of withstanding. (Immanuel Kant)

10954. Wanted, Dead or Alive: Schrödinger's Cat. (?)

10955. Pray: to ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. (Ambrose Bierce)

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The Frictionary # 1142

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10936. Luck is what you have left after you give 100 percent. (Langston Coleman)

10937. The first knowledge is the knowledge of my ignorance. It’s the beginning of intelligence. (Socrates)

10938. Anger is what humans use to disguise their sadness. (Réjean Lévesque)

10939. Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

10940. Freedom begins where ignorance ends. (Victor Hugo)

10941. Remove all periods/ They are scars made by words/ I couldn't bring myself to say. (Charles Simic)

10942. He passed for a thinker because he often was silent. (Alexandre Breffort)

10943. Memory is safest in someone with amnesia. (Hannah Fries)

10944. - What is your sign? - Do not disturb. (?)

10945. The future is not what will happen but what we will do. (Henri Bergson)

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The Frictionary # 1141

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10926. Width of life is more important than length of life. (Avicenna aka Ibn Sina)

10927. If you look at zero, you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world. (Robert Kaplan)

10928. The two shortest and oldest words, yes and no, are those that require the most reflection. (Pythagoras)

10929. All wealth is the product of labor.  (John Locke) Not necessarily yours... 

10930. In the past, man was afraid of the future. Today, the future is afraid of man. (Albert Camus)

10931. Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. (Yoda)

10932. Everybody has ideas: the proof is that there are bad ones. (Coluche)

10933. Listen to the woman when she looks at you...not when she talks to you. (Khalil Gibran)

10934. I have three ex-wives. I can't remember any of their names, so I just call'em "plaintiff". (Lewis Grizzard)

10935. Reality surpasses fiction, but not for long, we can clearly see that the reality is tiring. (Jean-Marie Gourio)

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The Frictionary # 1140

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10916. There are only two great currents in the history of humanity: the baseness that makes conservatives and the envy that makes revolutionaries. (Edmond & Jules de Goncourt)

10917. Social media is training us to compare our lives, instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is depressed. (Bill Murray)

10918. To translate is to transfer a liquor from a wide-necked vase into a narrow-necked vase. A lot gets lost. (Victor Hugo)  Note that this quote is a translation...

10919. Chihuahuas have no idea they're a tiny dog that looks like a roast chicken. (Dwight Slade)

10920. Faith: not "wanting" to know what is true. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

10921. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance. (Joey Adams)

10922. The beautiful is the truth, well-dressed. (Honoré de Balzac)

10923. A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided—it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again. (Josh Billings)

10924. If you don't let the past die, then it won't let you live. (?)

10925. If war has an opposite, gardens might sometimes be it. (Rebecca Solnit)

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