"Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone."

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Lloyd Alexander

#Hero Quotes #Men Quotes #Strive Quotes

“It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.”
“I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.”
“Say, ye oppress'd by some fantastic woes, Some jarring nerve that baffles your repose; Who press the downy couch, while slaves advance With timid eye, to read the distant glance; Who with sad prayers the weary doctor tease, To name the nameless ever-new disease; Who with mock patience dire complaints endure, Which real pain and that alone can cure; How would ye bear in real pain to lie, Despised, neglected, left alone to die? How would ye bear to draw your latest breath, Where all that's wretched paves the way for death?”
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

Source : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”
“Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.”
“The bigger the better; in everything.”
“Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.”

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