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«Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.»
«The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.»
«The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else»
Author: Umberto Eco (Critic, Novelist) | Keywords: coward, hero
«The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.»
«To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.»
«Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges»
Author: The Talmud | Keywords: conquers, hero, urges
«The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.»
«The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires»

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