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• PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

  Michael Arad

  Determination, People, Hatred

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• Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.

  Frank Warren

  Motivation, Drama, Inspiration

  "Half a million secrets". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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• The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy.

  John Welwood

  Beautiful, Real, Fighting

  John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Moving, Hero, Ideas

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• Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

  John Baldoni

  Knowing, Odds, Feelings

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

  Fred Lebow

  Drama, Inspirational Running, Competition

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• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, Sacrifice, Demand

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of Man and true freedom and to keep the Law of God, even of it means martyrdom or death.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Inspiration, Mean, Men

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.29, SCM Press

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• I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Ideas, People

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hero, Fighting, Winning

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.78, Penguin

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• Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

  Piers Anthony

  Courage, Fear, Coward

  Piers Anthony (2002). “Castle Roogna”, p.46, Del Rey

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• I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Adults, Want

  "The Unfinished" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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• This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

  Angela Carter

  Hero, Giving, Imagination

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Children, Crazy, Despair

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• yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism

  Khaled Hosseini

  Love, Moving, People

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• By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

  David Gemmell

  Coward, Definitions, Highest

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Justice, Defeat

  Peter Kreeft (2005). “The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings”, p.217, Ignatius Press

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• People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.

  John Green

  Real, Doctors, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.

  Darren Shan

  Believe, Destiny, Thinking

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• You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism. (p. 326)

  Brandon Mull

  Essence, Difficult, Right Road

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• Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Age, Youth, Grandeur

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.31, Random House

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• I am a strong believer that modern political life must rediscover a sense for symbolism. We need to develop a kind of political heroism. I don't mean that I want to play the hero. But we need to be amenable once again to creating grand narratives.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Strong, Hero, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sports, Order, Skills

  "Technics and Civilization" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 6, (sct. 11), 1934.

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• I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Age, Welcome

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• Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Drinking, Food, Hero

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 381 (7 April 1779)

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