I stand when I am sitting and I jump when I am walking. What am I?

Answer: A kangaroo.

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I stump people, I hurt people's brains. But when people get me, when they understand me, they are satisfied. What am I?
I surround you but I'm not clothes. I am everywhere but I don't take up space. I'm not always here, yet you can use a man-made form of me. I can go through glass but the glass will look just the same. What am I?
I take months to build, seconds to destroy, and years to rebuild. What am I?
I take you by night, by day take you back. None suffer to have me, but do from my lack. What am I?
I truly am cause for alarm. When you see me you can lose your house or your life. When you hear me you can also lose your job. What am I?
I walk with you almost every day, yet you never notice me. You step on me, but you never say sorry. What am I?
I was born a blonde. I lived with the brown hair. I died a redhead. And buried as a brunette. What am I?
I was carried into a dark room, and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?
I was once alive, a creature of flesh and bone. I did not survive, now I am but stone. What am I?
I wear a huge dark cloak, not unlike the one of a wizard, I am the opposite of warm, I don't walk-I float, I prefer to be sad, not happy. I appear in clouds, not in the sky, I can only be extinguished by a happy spell, I will take your soul, if you cross my path. I am a foul creature, amongst the foulest, you might call me a light extinguisher. What am I?
I wear striped sweaters and have a real green thumb. My favorite things are flowers and the taste of ripe plums. My home is shared with family and we all work together. We live beneath our queens decree, always striving to be better . When I kill myself it hurts you too, and leaves a stinging pain. Everything I say is true: now tell me, what's my name?
I wear you down, yet you'll mourn me once I fly. You can kill me, but I will never die. What am I?