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• Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

  Michael Grant

  Boys, Self, Usual

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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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• The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, Brave, Forever

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• I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

  Shane Claiborne

  War, Kids, Army

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

  Adam Gopnik

  Silly, Simple, Giving

  "Under one roof" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 2003.

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• If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

  Karl Marx

  War, Blood, Europe

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.581, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Rainbow, Forever

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• It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Struggle, Eye

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• The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hero, Men, Progress

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• Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fire, Tragedy, Human Nature

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

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• Morning brings back the heroic ages.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.140

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• This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a "better land," without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moving, Ohio, Land

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, World, Kind

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.29, Macmillan

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• My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic.

  Tim Allen

  Kids, Boys, Men

  "Tim Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 2011.

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• I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the horrible things we are capable of and also the heroic things. I'm really interested in exploring that side of human nature.

  Veena Sud

  Thinking, Sides, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.

  Hideo Kojima

  Reality, Escaping, Games

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Hero, Initiative

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• Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Discovery, Honor

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1589, Delphi Classics

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• Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

  Martha Stewart

  Care, Plant, Occasional

  Martha Stewart (2000). “Gardening 101”, Clarkson Potter

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• Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

  Bob Goff

  Today, Bigs, Define You

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Sep 30, 2012

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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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