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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
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Activist,
Tennis Player)
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Heroism
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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.»
«When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.»
«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
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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»
«True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.»