A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't.
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Every man who is truly a man must learn to be alone in the midst of all others, and if need be against all others.
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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
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You desire a popular art Begin by having a 'people' whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless toil, not brutalized by every superstition and every fanaticism, a people of itself, and victor in the fight that is being waged today.
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A hero is a man who does what he can.
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