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• The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

  Carl Sagan

  Memories, Fall, Voice

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.

  David Weber

  Son, Voice, Settling

  David Weber, Eric Flint (2003). “Crown of Slaves”, p.261, Baen Books

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• From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.

  John Galt

  Character, Scotland, Two

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• I can snap your spine like a toothpick.

  Dave Barry

  Toothpicks, I Can, Snaps

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• You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

  James Geary

  Wall

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• Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Should Have, Backbone

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• Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  War, Overrated, Ran

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• My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Mothers Day, Beautiful

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• Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be apparent to the audience. But you need it at the start of the creative process to guide you and keep you going.

  Twyla Tharp

  Art, Creative, Needs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.

  William Shatner

  Character, Awe And Wonder, Wonder

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• It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.

  Nora Roberts

  Giving, Foundation, Stomach

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.98, Penguin

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• Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Power, Anchors

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Degrees, Lasts, Facts

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Joy in the Morning: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.69, Random House

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• You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Joseph Pilates

  Yoga, Asana, Young

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• I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.

  St. Vincent

  Iron, Mind, Wish

  Song: Marrow, Album: Actor, 2009

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• We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Justice, Political, Independence

  "Hearing For Deputy Attorney General Nominee Focuses On Sessions, Russia". "All Things Considered" with Carrie Johnson, kbbi.org. March 7, 2017.

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• Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

  Herman Melville

  Character, Men, Skulls

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). “Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition”, p.349, Northwestern University Press

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• Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Evil, Culture, Good And Evil

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.200, Macmillan

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• Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Animal, Trying, Different

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Animal, Tails

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

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• The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body.

  Don Davis

  Body, May, Damage

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• All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

  William Halsey

  Inspirational, Courage, Adversity

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• If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.

  Donnie Yen

  Fighting, Actors, Bows

  "Action Star Donnie Yen Talks DRAGON, Why He Turned Down THE EXPENDABLES 2, Period Versus Modern, Whether Breaking Out in the U.S. is a Goal, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

  Karen Russell

  Book, Reading, Light

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012

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• I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Loss

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

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