"People aren't universally heroic." — Alexei Sayle

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• True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but… — Arthur Ashe
• Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
• Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. — Ansel Adams
• Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also… — Evan Bayh
• Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
• What is a society without a heroic dimension? — Jean Baudrillard
• Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible… — Andrew Bernstein
• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. — Joseph Campbell
• I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short… — Jane Campion
• I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a… — Nick Cave
• Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound… — Noam Chomsky
• If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. — Noam Chomsky

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