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    Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

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    The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.

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    September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

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    The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

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    The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

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    The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

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    The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.

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    Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

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    The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

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    The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

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    There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

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    The marathon is a charismatic event. It has everything. It has drama, competition, camaraderie & heroism

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    There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

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    There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

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    The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

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    The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

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    The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

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    The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

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    There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

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    The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

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    Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

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    To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

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    War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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    Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

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    We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

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    War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

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    This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

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    What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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    What keeps India safe really is the heroism of millions of poor Indians who every day reject the allure of terrorism. What keeps India safe is just the courage of poor Indians, not the actions of its government.

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    Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

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    Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

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    When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

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    You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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    Ability and talent never loose the value, because demand for it highly exceeds the supply of it.

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    A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

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    Ali, of course, hasn't whipped every obstacle in his life. Only enough of them that we remember him as having done so.

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    And where do I go? Where on Earth does a person go when she realizes there's no place for her? You can't possibly try to fit in, because if you do, if you manage to carve out some beautiful niche of happiness for yourself, then one day it will be taken from you as surely and truly as the sun rises each morning.

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    We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

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    After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear the hat. Would you wear someone else's Medal of Honor? Yes, it's a tribute, and sincere tribute is always appropriate for these brave people. But wearing their symbols is also rubbing off a piece of heroism that isn't yours.

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    A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

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    A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom,” she said. “It’s often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.

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    A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

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    A hero is a matter of perspective. The only sure thing in war is casualties. Ideology, patriotism and religious zeal all fuel heroic notions.

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    A Hero: A Moment When You’re Bigger Than Yourself.

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    And my chest swells with an emotion I'm not familiar with . . . happiness? Pride? I'm not sure what it is, but I suddenly feel compelled to do things that will make me feel this way all the time, which gives me pause, since that seems dangerous too.

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    As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

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    Better a long ignoble life of shallow pleasures than a short stab at heroism, ending with a short stab. And just because one man plays another doesn’t always mean that it’s not the right direction for both of them.

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    Better an unsung hero than a fallen star.

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    But one must remember that they were all men with systems. Freud, monumentally hipped on sex (for which he personally had little use) and almost ignorant of Nature: Adler, reducing almost everything to the will to power: and Jung, certainly the most humane and gentlest of them, and possibly the greatest, but nevertheless the descendant of parsons and professors, and himself a super-parson and a super-professor. all men of extraordinary character, and they devised systems that are forever stamped with that character.… Davey, did you ever think that these three men who were so splendid at understanding others had first to understand themselves? It was from their self-knowledge they spoke. They did not go trustingly to some doctor and follow his lead because they were too lazy or too scared to make the inward journey alone. They dared heroically. And it should never be forgotten that they made the inward journey while they were working like galley-slaves at their daily tasks, considering other people's troubles, raising families, living full lives. They were heroes, in a sense that no space-explorer can be a hero, because they went into the unknown absolutely alone. Was their heroism simply meant to raise a whole new crop of invalids? Why don't you go home and shoulder your yoke, and be a hero too?

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    But the days of true heroism are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius or a Washington, and then returned to his farm to let his virtuous fervour run in a more placid, but not less salutary, stream.