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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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"A hero: a man or woman who is unsatisfied by his condition, and resolves to do something about it."
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"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."
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"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
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"Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo."
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"Heroes are hero no matter if everybody is watching them or nobody watching them."
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"People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes."
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"I stare at him, trying to comprehend what he's done. He saved Magiano from falling overboard. He saved me. He is taking this mission seriously, however much he loathes us."Maybe next time, he says to me with that smile, "you won't be so lucky."
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"He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished, he died."
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"One brave deed makes no hero."
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"The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths."
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"Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom."
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"The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation."
Time
"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
Change
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
Life
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
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"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
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"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
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"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
Heroism
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
Time
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