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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."

"As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored."

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."

"Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes."

"There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism."

"Today is my last day as a human, tomorrow I am going to be a hero."

"Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive."
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"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."

"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."

"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."

"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."

"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."

"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."

"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."

"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."

"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
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