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• When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

  George Orwell

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• I’ve always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

  Jaron Lanier

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• My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn’t some heroic thing. That doesn’t mean it isn’t confusing or difficult – especially that question of how you find a balance.

  Jennifer Garner

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

  Robert John Downey Jr.

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• I admire Bruce Springsteen because he’s a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

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• We don’t relate to her too much because you don’t want the heroic character to not be heroic.

  Radha Mitchell

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• He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we’ve made a hero of the rebel, and it’s more heroic to speak up.

  Eddie Campbell

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• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

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• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

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• The simple act of caring is heroic.

  Edward Albert

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• The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

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• An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

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