#or

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#days #decades #emerges #first #first time

Performance enhancements are most impressive when used by that sedentary athlete, the videogamer. After he turns to hitchhiking in disgrace, his giant thumbs can take him anywhere. ↗

— Bauvard

#doping #funny #hitchhiking #humor #steroids

And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates. ↗

— Hilari Bell

#funny #jiaan #funny

I’d never name my kid Mark, for fear he’d be a target—a mark.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bizarre #funny #humor #random #random-thought

And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propitious for enchantments and apparitions? Their visionary art (who, more than they, evoked a truer image of life?) was closely related to that of magicians: bewitchments were carried out with wax figures, witch trials are full of them, and one particular legend haunted me above all, that of the modeler from Anspach, who slowly squeezed the soul and the life out of his model in order to animate his painted waxwork and then, having finished his work of art, awaited nightfall to go and bury the corpse in the ditch at the city walls. ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#murder #waxworks #age

A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#humor

..it's not how much you work, but how working so much makes you feel that counts. And how I felt was iserable. ↗

— Jonathon Lazear

#home

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#humor #death

Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground? ↗

— Maria Rodale

#health #non-gmo #nutrition #organic #home

One of history’s most useful tasks is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly and painfully, past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong or disgraceful. ↗

— John Carey

#home