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81 " I would slay myself on the altar of boredom if given the chance. "
― Jessa Crispin , The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
82 " Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task. "
― David Burr Gerrard , Short Century: A Novel
83 " I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom. "
― Mercedes Lackey , Fortune's Fool (Five Hundred Kingdoms, #3)
84 " In an era when man can no longer dash out of his cave and slay a mammoth, he simply slips on his Lycra and goes for a run. "
85 " The highest courage is not to be found in the instinctive acts of men who risk their lives to save a friend or slay a foe the physical fearlessness of a moment or an hour is not to be compared with immolation of months or years for the sake of wisdom or art. "
86 " Only monsters could slay monsters. "
― , Tales of the Metric System
87 " As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team. "
88 " Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. "
89 " When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. "