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#1. His green eyes sparkled. 'I think you're the first girl I've ever met who would rather slay a twelve foot snake than face one teeny, tiny spider.'
'Spiders are scarier,' she murmured, staring ahead.

K.D. Jones

#2. On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering

Frank X. Barron

#3. I just can't - I can't exist in normal group situations. A classroom, where you have to sort of jockey for position, compete for attention - I would just withdraw.

Jesse Eisenberg

#4. The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Ellen Key

#6. The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Jean Genet

#7. It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

Ann Patchett