#hum

Too bad Americans can’t export Awesome, because I have boxes and boxes of the stuff just lying around in my attic. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#americans #attic #awesome #export #funny

On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#behaved #dance #each #hand #how

Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#being #believe #centre #confronted #damages

Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #tom-robbins #death

Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#control #humble #modest #simple #your

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces. ↗

— Robert Cailliau

#faces #great #humanity #humankind #many

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#human nature #instinctively #nature #obscurity #ordinariness

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section. ↗

— John Callahan

#feminist #humor #section

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#beauty

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#between #confines #darkness #empires #everlasting