#test

A brick could be used to motivate. Just hold it up as an example of something that’s going nowhere in life.

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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #life

Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away? ↗

— Amy Summers

#brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #metaphor #random

When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beatification #canonisation #deacons #devil #devil-s-advocate

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. ↗

— Alan Moore

#revolution #shock #silence #revolution

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#children #courage #house #into #lives

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#brightest #darkest #days #do not judge #find

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#activists #against #chance #credible #funny

This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature. ↗

— Steve Largent

#access #battle #become #biggest #expensive

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hardest #remember #sweetest #things

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#becoming #christian #done #faith #gladly