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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#appraise #blunder #cannot #chiefly #even

A brick could be used in speech therapy, to cure a stutter. I mean look at me, I don't have a stutter. But to be fair, I never did have a stutter, so I can't be certain the presence of a brick had any positive effect at all.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner. ↗

— Truman Capote

#inspirational

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition. ↗

— Robert Moog

#haven #i #made #say #scientist

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#focus #hard #hold #long #single

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#come #communities #dominate #eat #eliminated

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#i #kind #like #particular #set

Among the southern tribes, on the contrary, hats were sometimes worn in the dance, although this was not considered in strict accordance with the doctrine. ↗

— James Mooney

#although #among #considered #contrary #dance

My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times. ↗

— Charles Moore

#changing #different #i #intended #landscapes

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#criticism #inspirational #art