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“True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.”

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.”

Source: The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940

“We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright.”

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Book:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History