#hum

I am Valentino Rossi. If I stay in MotoGP it is to try to win. When that is not possible it is time to stay at home and work in the garden! ↗

— Valentino Rossi

#inspirational #home

A brick could be used instead of a red light. They’re both red, and I’d run both with equal fervor.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity. ↗

— Claire Holden Rothman

#violence #war #world-war-i #equality

The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any given place. But the experience in the Balkans reinforced an idealist dictum that is equally true: One should always work near the limits of what is possible rather than cynically give up on any place. In this decade idealists went too far; in the previous one, it was realists who did not go far enough. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#humanitarian-intervention #idealism #interventionism #iraq #noninterventionism

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conceal #equality #evil #expose #good

I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #spiders #humor

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#destiny #equality #humanity #united-nations #equality

All I have to do is shoot! In my excitement, I throw the ball down with more force than ever, feeling bad-ass. It ricochets off the floor at an angle and slams right into my crotch. All around me, the room goes, “Ohhhh!” I look up. Every face is staring at me, contorted into winces. Right. Ball in crotch equals excruciating pain. I’m such an idiot! Too late, I double over in pain. “Ouch!” I yell. I sneak a glance around. Nobody looks convinced, so I add, “My balls! ↗

— Jody Gehrman

#humor #equality

Spirituality is NOT the gauge at which we should measure our humanity. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#humanity #life #spirituality #experience

I think you better hurry along with that French toast making, Stud. You know—before my fetus eats your face.” “It would be equally as delicious. ↗

— Pella Grace

#romance #equality