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"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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"Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome."
"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."
"A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice."
"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
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"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."
"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."
"The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian."
"The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship."
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