1. Illness brought her a strange restlessness and made her all the more eager to cling to life and squeeze from it the last drop of happiness. It made her envy health, but it also made her sentimental over a leaf that the wind had blown into her room.
2. Culture is the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and that are transmitted from generation to generation through learning.
3. No one in authority in Washington or Tokyo will say publicly that current turmoil is likely to break up the 35-year-old US security alliance.
4. A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
5. The first purpose to which the new space technology was applied was communication.
