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• A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the
  great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also,
  and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are
  commonly treated as enemies by it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Enemy, Patriot

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

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• Proving that the best villains have the charisma of a hero, (Jason) Statham makes a strong impression, supplying the kind of menace that permeates the movie even when he's not on screen. His fight with (Dwayne) Johnson doesn't have the bang you'd expect from a The Transporter versus The Rock match-up, but the climactic Statham-(Vin)Diesel battle more than delivers.

  Alonso Duralde

  Strong, Fighting, Rocks

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• If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Dragons, Enemy

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• There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Dream, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.380, Princeton University Press

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• Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Greek, Morality, Autonomy

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• Necessity makes heroes of us all.

  Mason Cooley

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• Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.

  Mason Cooley

  Fighting, Ironic, Boast

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• The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.

  Mason Cooley

  Winning, Play, Comedian

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• I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
  wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
  was the best all-around player. Joe
  was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

  Willie Mays

  Player, Problem, Wanted

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• I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

  Kit Harington

  Running, Ideas, People

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• My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.

  Nell Zink

  Zero, Years, Gone

  "Why Cultural Significance Is The Best Job I Ever Had" by Nell Zink, www.buzzfeed.com. June 6, 2015.

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• One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

  Ida Tarbell

  Depressing, Business, Men

  Ida M. Tarbell (2012). “The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version”, p.224, Courier Corporation

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• He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.

  Sammy Sosa

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• To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Battle, Principles

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• Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Virtue, Fame, Fortune

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.545

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• I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or hero. Thus it is in the farce of life. Wise men spend their time in mirth; it is only fools who are serious.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Wise, Men, Play

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• Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Sight, Bravery, Soul

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• Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and, noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Dream, Hope, Reality

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• We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Humorous, Knights, Coward

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• Whoever, with an earnest soul,
  Strives for some end from this low world afar,
  Still upward travels though he miss the goal,
  And strays--but towards a star.

  Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

  Stars, Goal, Missing

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• When it comes to fund managers and market strategists, this year's hero usually turns into next year's zero.

  William J. Bernstein

  Zero, Years, Next Year

  William J. Bernstein (2009). “The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between”, John Wiley & Sons

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• In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them--Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Writing, Thinking

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• Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

  Nikolai Gogol

  Chairs, Courses

  "The Inspector General". Play by Nikolai Gogol, 1836.

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• We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Patience, Independent

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Horse, Purpose, Practicals

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