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 | "A hero is one who does what he can. The others don"t." | |
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Romain Rolland
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| "As you get older it is harder to have heroes." | |
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Ernest Hemingway
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| "Asked how he became a Navy hero, It was involuntary. They sank my
boat." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest
materials, or none at all." | |
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Gerald White Johnson
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| "Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer." | |
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Proverb
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| "If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at
life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel all their strength
supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I
am to go." | |
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Bonaro W. Overstreet
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| "In the world"s broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not
like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife." | |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| "Kill reverence and you"ve killed the hero in man." | |
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Ayn Rand
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| "Nature abhors a hero....how can it be the survival of the fittest
when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most
likely to get creamed?" | |
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Solomon Short
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| "No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he
died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who
have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down
with a precision proportionate only to the mischief they wrought." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic
makes heroes." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." | |
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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| "The ability to accept victory graciously and take defeat without
bitterness is what makes heroes." | |
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Unknown
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| "The characteristic of genuine heroism is persistency. All men have
wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have
resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile
yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common
heroic." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "The effective impact upon us of men of honor, rectitude and goodwill
is to arouse kindred impulses within us. We begin to detect in ourselves
undeveloped capacities. The touch of the heroic awakens in us the
slumbering hero. Fellowship with a true servant of mankind calls into
action our latent impulses to minister." | |
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Charles Malcolm Douglas, D.D.
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| "The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may
not be going to prove one"s self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist
the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be
resisted, and when to be obeyed." | |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| "The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?" | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify ? so
that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new
heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a
pearl in rubbish." | |
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John Keats
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| "We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in
other words, we are the hero of our own story." | |
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Mary McCarthy
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