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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sylvia Plath
“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
Sylvia Plath , The Collected Poems

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Tim Kreider
“The same thing that makes friendship so valuable is what makes it so tenuous: it is purely voluntary. You enter into it freely, without the imperatives of biology or the agenda of desire. Officially, you owe each other nothing.”
Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

Thomas Hardy
“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”
Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

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