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"I had both male and female heroes."
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"You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero."
"The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point."
"Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't."
"Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and though, How can he possibly fail? This is a real hero."
"People love super heroes. It's true we're impressed by their bravery and fortitude, their supernatural gifts and physical brawn. But the fact is, villains possess these same qualities. So why our admiration for the hero and not the nemesis? Because of virtue. A super hero gives everything to defend what's good and right without seeking praise or reward. Think about it. All the great heroes give without taking, help without grumbling, sacrifice without asking recompense. A super hero's real strength, what we absolutely fall in love with, is his finer virtue."
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"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do."
"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
"The astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women."
"It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"
"I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science."
"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
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