#iq

A brick could be used to liven up urinal chatter. Also, instead of just repeating “Yeah” while the guy peeing next to you is talking, try a more positive affirmation, like pinching his butt cheek. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#christianity #culture #culture-critique #heroes #jesus-shock

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law." (Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel, 1949) ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#mysteries #solution #technique #writing #writing-craft

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#another #another way #been #being #being used

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ability #almost #also #apparent #beings

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques. ↗

— Rick Baker

#current #find #i #make #material

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#age #antiquity #censure #eminent #escaping

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me. ↗

— Todd Akin

#becomes #climate #contains #control #defines

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#critique #every #every time #get #i

There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#did #latter #never #oblique #prefer