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“Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.”

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Author:Frank Wilczek

“I don't think I would worry about an oversaturation of information if it was indeed information. It is the slovenly, hasty traffic in cliché and sensationalism and bad reasoning that bothers me. I love finding arcane primary texts on the web. The people who think to put them up are heroes of mine.”

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Author:Marilynne Robinson

“Our discontent begins by finding false villains whom we can accuse of deceiving us. Next we find false heroes whom we expect to liberate us. The hardest, most discomfiting discovery is that each of us must emancipate himself.”

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Book:The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

“Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.”

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Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”

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Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain