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"Mother of laughter, and welspring of blisse, O graunt that of my loue at last I may not misse."
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book IV, Canto 10, Stanza 47.

Joker: It's Thane. We are holding, but they keep coming. A quick exit is preferable.

Roberto Kan — Alive 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDESrck_6LQ

"I don't like you, Sabidius, nor can I say why; This only can I say, I don't like you."
[Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare: hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.]
Martial, Epigrams, Book I, #32 [Thomas Forde, Faenestra in Pectore, Letter to T. F., 1650, p. 166: I do not like thee, Nell.]

The proximity to a Reaper dissolves & mixes all personalities, although a variety of backgrounds greatly sustains their defensive.

Shepard: Let's move. We got ten minutes before the reactor overloads and blows this whole station apart.

Roberto Kan — MeTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTZWNwVDp48

"Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave 
a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. 
It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they could devour."
Francis Bacon, Of Wisdom for a Man's Self, Essays, 1625.

"That ill such friends run from, like mice from a falling house."
Thomas Forde, servant to SAM Man, Lusus Fortunae, 1649, p. 32.  [The play of fortune: continually acted by the severall 
creatures on the stage of the world. Or, a glance at the various mutability, inconstancie, and uncertainty of all earthly things. 
From a consideration of the present times.]

Illusive Man: Shepard. You've done the impossible.

We Rabbitz feat. Chris Commisso [Coolio] — Gangsta's Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF8qXxDwxNw

"Gratiano:— A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip."
William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1 [Shylock: Give me my principal, and let me go.]

Harbinger: Assuming direct control. I am limitless. You are bacteria.

"The phrase "fight like a cornered rat" is an extremely apt description. Throughout the history of military encounters, 
human combatants have been known to fight at their fiercest when challenged in enclosed places where flight is not an option."
Dan Simmons, Hyperion, Chapter 2, The soldier's tale: the war lovers, 1989.