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• But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Men, Talking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

  Plato

  Plato, Hero, Speak

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• The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Hero, Compassion

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Hero, Initiative

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• I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

  Charlton Heston

  Believe, Men, Heroic Deeds

  "Charlton Heston: Great sport with a line in heroic role models". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, June 17, 1990.

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• Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.

  Adolf Hitler

  Wise, Character, Ideas

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

  John Brown Gordon

  Memories, Sacrifice, People

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• Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.

  Peter Kreeft

  Simple, Achievement, Insane

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• A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.

  David Brooks

  New York, Athlete, Victory

  "Shields and Brooks on the power of campaign donors, baseball vs. baby". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. April 4, 2014.

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• Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

  Nathan Rabin

  Stars, Valentine, Voice

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• If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.

  Wayne Dyer

  Doubt, Purpose, Affair

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Wisdom of the Ages: A Modern Master Brings Eternal Truths into Everyday Life”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving, Function, Symbols

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• No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Age, Economics

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Hope, Courage, Heart

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Christian, Children

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• A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Cheating, Truth, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim.

  John T. Flynn

  Christian, Strong, War

  John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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• The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!

  Rob Hopkins

  Hero, Ideas, Effort

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• This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic.

  Julius Evola

  Spiritual, Order, Political

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• I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

  Edward Abbey

  Sloth, Enterprise, Accounts

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hero, Coward, Cowardly

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• And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

  Veena Sud

  Powerful, Interesting, Cynical

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• You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

  Alan Furst

  Accommodations, Situation, Crucial

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• Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by the careless acts of millions of people. It cannot be saved by heroic feats of gigantic technology, but only by millions of small acts and restraints, conditioned by small fidelities, skills, and desires. Soil loss is ultimately a cultural problem; it will be corrected only by cultural solutions.

  Wendell Berry

  Loss, Technology, Small Acts

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.202, Counterpoint

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• Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Heroic Deeds

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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