Let's start with a quiz. Name the speaker in the following quotations:

1) "...he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
2)"...and choose to find by not finding rather than by finding fail to find you."
3)"If such a thing as spiteful benevolence existed (which is impossible, of course, but supposing it did), a genuinely and sincerely merciful person would wish others to be miserable so that he could show them mercy!"
4)"I'm four but I'm just little!"

Good luck. winner gets my respect.

I've been reading Augustine and thinking how little the world has changed in 1700 years. And I've been reading Orson Scott Card and thinking how much more realistic characters are when they are flawed and insecure and prejudiced.

I said a really arrogant thing the other day in a conversation and immediately I wanted to take it back, but in my pride I didn't want to contradict myself so I left it. And now this person who doesn't really know me has the data of my arrogance on which to base their judgement of my character, which is upsetting, but doesn't that just show how proud I am, that I wish to appear humble?

voir dire

I respect creativity so much in others because I possess it in no great measure myself. People often call me creative, thinking it synonymous with artistic or because I create things. But it would be more accurate to say that I copy, or recreate.
People who can write books or plays, or invent new tools, or come up with another way of doing things - even they are not truly creative, because it's probably been done before, but they don't know of the previous creation, so for them it is new. These people impress us and inspire us.
God is creative. He can use any materials and circumstances to make whatever he wants. He's never surprised or at a loss of what to do. Now that is impressive.

I'm glad I had no sisters growing up (I'm okay with having them now).

This was supposed to be a bit more focused on me.

debris

huge squash

mushy

LOTS of soup.

very disappointing, didn't taste like my mom's.

Legumocentric

Definition: a theory where the centre of the universe is a bean, compare heliocentric, geocentric.

Leguminotes: the followers of aforementioned theory. Also the children of said bean.