be heroic

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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy. Luigi Pirandello

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding. Kurt Masur

I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday. Robert Crais

Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes. Bernie Siegel

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. Alan Furst

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. Robert Oppenheimer

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