The Frictionary # 1102

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10536. Dictators always look good until the last ten minutes. (Jan Masaryk)

10537. Depressions may bring people closer to the church - but so do funerals. (Clarence Darrow)

10538. Super glue setting time: wood: 30sec. plastic:20 sec. ceramic: 15 sec. fingers: instant. (Laetitia Castwa)

10539. It took less than an hour to make the atom, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man.* *Numbers now revised.

10540. Lying is the talent of those who do not have any. (Marie-Josph Chénier)

10541. The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own. (Ned Rorem)

10542. Thousands upon thousands have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health. (Adelle Davis)

10543. I am the ocean/ who longs to touch your foot. (Richard Desjardins)

10544. I was playing chess with a friend and he said, "Let's make this interesting." So, we stopped playing chess. (?)

10545. The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of female begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." (Shirley Chisholm)

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The Frictionary # 1101

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10526. The more you live, the less you die. (Janis Joplin)

10527. To despise is to refuse to understand. (Marcel Aymé)

10528. The cornerstone of male philosophy was (is) "If you ignore it, maybe it'll go away". (Stephen King)

10529. Veggie sausage: hummus in a condom. (Simon Gouache)

10530. If you work hard to prevent people from voting, you pretty much admit your ideas aren't popular and you fear the verdict of the people. (Dan Rather)

10531. Scale: driving power of guilt. (Hugo Léger)

10532. It's 2025 and we still don't know who let the dogs out. (Judes Dickey)

10533. We are so used to complicating our lives that it has become complicated to be simple. (André Sauvé)

10534. Mortgage: a house with a guilty conscience. (?)

10535. What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious. (Lisel Muller)

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The Frictionary # 1100

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10516. Certain things in life have to be experienced and never explained. Love is such a thing. (Paulo Coelho)

10517. If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. (Dean Smith)

10518. There are three dimensions of love: depth, duration and trust. (André Maurois)

10519.  Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets. (Bill Vaughan)

10520.  Not all -ly words are adverbs and not all adverbs end in -ly. July is a month, lily is a flower, and ugly bully is a president. (Anu Garg)

10521. You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither. (Steve Martin)

10522. Culture is not a science. And fortunately. Its benefits are not quantifiable and it bothers those who count. (Marc Séguin)

10523. No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. (Bertrand Russell)

10524. If you do not say anything, you will not be asked to repeat. (?)

10525. History is written by the victors and those who are able to write it. (Bernard Werber)

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The Frictionary # 1099

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10506. Greatness has nothing to do with goodness. (Frank Yerby)

10507. Music is the home of sharing cultures. (Betty Bonifassi)

10508. People know many things, and half of them are wrong. If only we knew which half, we'd have reason to be proud of our intelligence. (Orson Scott Card)

10509. If you boil your alphabet soup too long, you will eat capitals. (François Morency)

10510. Our planet is beset by conflict, climate change, pollution, disease, and other hazards. What better time to be hopeful. (Anne Lamott)

10511. One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. (Klaus Kinski)

10512. Never serve tea from a Neti pot. (James Ford)

10513. Justice does not come via the Internet. (Tristane Banon)

10514. What you are not changing you are choosing. Read that again. (?)

10515. Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. (Margaret Fuller)

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The Frictionary # 1098

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10496. All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism. (Geoff Mulgan)

10497. History repeats itself twice, first as a tragedy then as farce. (Karl Marx)

10498. Believing is not knowing. (Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt)

10499. I am afraid of paranoia. (Positively Wyrde)

10500. Polls are never wrong; it’s the people who vote that are always wrong. (Stéphane Laporte)

10501. One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds. (John Burroughs)

10502. One day, I was told that Eternity is not only forever. It has also always been... It upset me. (Évelyne de la Chenelière)

10503. God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best coach. (Heywood Brown)

10504. When you forgive, you don't change the past - you change the future. (?)

10505. Even God is deprived of this one thing only: the power to undo what has been done. (Agathon)

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The Frictionary # 1097

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10486. All decisions involving human lives are made by those who do not risk anything. (Simone Weil)

10487. A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn. (Helen Keller)

10488. When a clown enters a palace, he does not become king; the palace becomes a circus. (Turkish proverb)

10489. A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. (Lewis Mumford)

10490. To explain yourself is to lie. (Jacques Perret)

10491. A good story invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. (Sid Caesar)

10492. Gluttony begins when you’re not hungry anymore. (Alphonse Daudet)

10493. Of those who say nothing, few are silent. (Thomas Neill)

10494. The brain is the most amazing organ. It works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from birth until you fall in love. (?)

10495. No religion has clean hands. They are only strong enough to hate us, but never powerful enough to love us all. (Jean-Pierre Létourneau)

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The Frictionary # 1096

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10476. To know yourself is to know you are not invulnerable. (Maria Popova)

10477. We forgive as long as we love. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

10478. Music is truthful...Music attracts the angels in the universe. (Bob Dylan)

10479. Fridges are still proof that what matters is not the appearance but what we have inside. (Laetitia Castwa)

10480. Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. (Louise Bogan)

10481. Peace is what remains once we have shared the cake. (Vincent Roca)

10482. Empty pages make up the book of silence/ but as light contains all color/ the silence contains all things. (Bauke Kamstra) 

10483. The problems that would have been avoided if man descended from the koala instead of the monkey. (Daniel Thibault)

10484. We are all cremated equal. (Goodman Ace)

10485. All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from and to, and why. (James Thurber)

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