#lan

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart. ↗

— Douglas Reed

#christian #like #looked #pagan #planted

I built my marriage brick by brick. And I destroyed it blanket by blanket.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

Life never obeys our plans, I'm afraid. ↗

— Barbara Kloss

#life-lessons #plans #life

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#common sense #distinctions #fastidious #first #found

A blanket could be used to not only make promises, but fulfill them too. They're so soft and warm, how could they not be used in this manner?
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— Jarod Kintz

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

Bricks could be used to feed the homeless. But why not use those bricks to build the homeless people homes? Oh yeah, because that’s not the sort of smart decision DC makes.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

Do you ever want to talk away from your life?... Do you ever think this life is not exactly what you had planned? Do you ever crave something, anything that could wake you up? ↗

— Elizabeth Flock

#plans #life

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian. ↗

— David Remnick

#complex #constant #enough #everything #happy

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#history #i #languages #nation #native

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better. ↗

— Alain Resnais

#better #darkness #had #maybe #melancholy