The Frictionary # 1148

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10996. The secret of living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. (Tibetan proverb)

10997. You are the music/ while the music lasts. (T.S. Eliot)

10998. I don’t want a tombstone. Time erases everything. Let’s help him. (Catherine Mavrikakis)

10999. Creationism is the belief that God could create the world in 6 days but couldn't find 2 naked people hiding in a garden. (John Fugelsang)

11000. It’s not because there is a rose on the rose bush that the bird lands there: it’s because there are aphids. (Jules Renard)

11001. Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. (Aldous Huxley)

11002. I quite like being alone, and my pleasure is sometimes greater depending on who isn’t there. (Philippe Geluck)

11003. The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. (Brian Herbert)

11004. How do flat-earthers explain the seasons? (?)

11005. The greatest folly of man is to believe that things happen because he desires them. (Laure Conan)

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The Frictionary # 1147

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10986. Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop. (Robert Musil)

10987. If there were a vaccine against love, you should take it. (Thomas R. Wells)

10988. The meaning of life? Shakespeare had it pat: "To be or not to be". The meaning of my life? I am. (Réjean Lévesque)

10989. Compromises are temporary. (Jérôme Garcin)

10990. Finish last in your league and they call you idiot, Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. (Abe Lemons)

10991. I have never believed that man’s freedom consists of doing what he wants, but rather of never doing what he doesn’t want. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

10992. Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. (Fannie Hurst)

10993. The most incomprehensible thing in the world is the patience of the poor. (Léon Bloy)

10994. Cotton candy: parents' enemy. (Jim Gaffigan)

10995. If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist. (Dorothy Day)

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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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