"In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old."

-- Alfred Marshall

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Firefighter Quotes

“Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.”
“How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.”
“I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.”

Source : "Portlandia Brings Out the Fan in Carrie Brownstein" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. January 06, 2012.
“So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.”
“You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.”
“I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.”
“Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.”
“I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.”

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