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I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#intelligence #iq #nerd #nerdiness #nerds

Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#design #happiness #intent #life #motivation

Fiction is life by design. ↗

— Mary Kittredge

#design

God has the most incredible, unimaginable, inconceivable, and indescribable intention and design for your life. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#spiritual-growth #design

I wish Peeta were here to hold me, until I remember I'm not supposed to wish that anymore. I have chosen Gale and the rebellion, and a future with Peeta is the Capitol's design, not mine. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#design

I design, manufacture, distribute, and sell elevator buttons. I specialize in the fourth floor. And I don’t mean to brag, but I’m such a good salesman that I could sell one of my fourth-floor elevator buttons to the owner of a three-story building. I’m also into jazz. I make elevator music in my free time. My motto in life: You can’t push my buttons if you don’t buy them. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#random #sales #design

Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#hunting #killing #speciesism #vegan #design

There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos. ↗

— Guillermo González

#biology #cosmology #id #intelligent-design #physics

Sarasa, even if you feel that destiny is toying with you, destiny is something you design with your own hands. ↗

— Yumi Tamura

#design

...it seemed marriage by its very design was meant to seek out love and destroy it. ↗

— Kelly O'Connor McNees

#marriage #design