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“My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.”
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“A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.”
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“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”
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“Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?”
Source : Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”
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“The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.”
Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009. 
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“Attack! Always Attack!”
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“During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”
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“As a rule, so-called "positional" sacrifices are considered more difficult, and therefore more praise-worthy, than those which are based exclusively on an exact calculation of tactical possibilities.”
Source : Alexander Alekhine, Garry Kasparov (2011). “Alexander Alekhine's Best Games: Algebraic edition”, Pavilion Books
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“Combination is a soul of chess.”
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“Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.”
Source : "The Soviet School of Chess". Book by Alexander Kotov, p. 42, 2001.
