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friction

«In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.»
«Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.»
«To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.»
«Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war.»
«The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.»
«The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction, and malperformance»
«A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.»
«One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.»
«It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.»