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Letter "H" » heroism
«True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.»
Author: Arthur Ashe
(Activist, Tennis Player)
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«To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
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«When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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«You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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«True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.»
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