#hum

It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps the isolated deeds of virtue at which people marveled in later life were not really isolated at all; perhaps they were the natural continuation of the innocent goodness that all people brought into the world at their birth. If this was true, then his fellow-human beings were not the rough, flawed creatures that most of them supposed. Their failings were not innate, but were the result of where they had gone wrong or been coarsened by their experiences; in their hearts they remained perfectible. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#experience

The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts, memories, experiences, and odors. We adapt to one another to produce the human condition. ↗

— Josh Hanagarne

#libraries #experience

I have a good ear for music, just like Van Gogh had a good ear for art.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ear #funny #humor #life #music

I don't care." - Bakura "I'm not going to kill you, just destroy you a little. Geez, talk about overreacting!" - Marik "So then he goes to me with the tea pot and he goes, 'Why so British?'." - Bakura "Now I can't that friggin song out of my head! Thanks Odion, thanks a bunch!" - Marik "Not a kitty!" - Bakura "Maybe we should hug him, Bakura. I mean he seems like an okay guy." - Marik ↗

— Little Kuriboh Marik and Bakura

#humor #ishtar #little-kuriboh #malik #marik

Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor

You don’t always have to say what’s on your mind. You can keep it to yourself for the time being. That’s called patience. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#sadistic #sarcasm #humor

While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience. ↗

— Craig Kelly

#appreciation #beyond #continually #experience #extreme

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#bequeathed #blood #bones #bronze #capabilities

A brick could be used to keep your sandwich pressed down, so your meat doesn't spill out.
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— Jarod Kintz

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