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• I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Noble, Type, Womanhood

  "Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

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• The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

  John Cage

  Sorrow, Mirth, Emotion

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• How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of the morning, looking up into the absence of light, remembering absent friends. Sometimes in those little hours I think about the horizon. You have to establish the horizon. You have to mark the white. A simple enough act, you might say, but any act that re-makes the world is heroic. Or so I've come to believe.

  Stephen King

  Morning, Believe, Simple

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Loving Life, Joy, Challenges

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.171, Random House

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• It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Animal, Reflection

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• Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.410, Penguin

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• Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly, and you have just saved me with your mad ninja driving skills, so do not sully your heroic hottie image in my mind by further reciting your nerdy scholastic agenda. Don't tell me what you're studying, Steve, tell me what's in your soul. What haunts you?" And he was like, "Dude, you need to cut back on the caffeine.

  Christopher Moore

  Cutting, Hair, Skills

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• For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Princess, Passion, Rotary

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• Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

  Henry James

  Wish, Might, Sometimes

  Henry James (1883). “Works”

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• My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Philosophy, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.351, Penguin

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• When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

  C.P. Snow

  Hero, Acceptance, Men

  C.P. Snow (2010). “The Physicists”, p.97, House of Stratus

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• When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

  Norm MacDonald

  Cancer, Guy, Battle

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• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Death, Faith

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

  David Duchovny

  Inspirational, Mom, Teacher

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• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Hero, Years, Paper

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• Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Lying, Hero, Government Lies

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• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Hero, Careers, Two

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• I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

  Jodie Foster

  Drama, Dark, People

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• Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “The Edge of the Sword”, New York : Criterion Books

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• But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Film, Standing Out, Certain

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• Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

  Al Gore

  Fashion, War, Political Will

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• I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Hero, Thinking, Verbs

  "The Complete Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2012.

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• This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tyrants, People, Resistance

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Comforting, Anarchy

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

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