#ran

A brick is something solid, stable, and yet edgy. In other words, it’s everything a politician isn’t.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

Give me liberty or give me a bran muffin! ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#give #give me #give me liberty #liberty #me

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#add #benjamin #benjamin franklin #certain #certainty

I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#sing #speak #strangers #talking #total

Cedric Gibbons was the grand cardinal of the art department. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#cardinal #department #gibbons #grand

In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#india #more #people #poor #poor people

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living. ↗

— Edith Grossman Why Translation Matters

#literature-in-translation #imagination

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#excuses #ignorance #law #man #practicing

A brick could be used to describe somebody hard and inflexible, and a blanket could be used to describe somebody warm and easygoing.
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— Jarod Kintz

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