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"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
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"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."

"The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words."

"A young hero is the world's greatest attraction."

"The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is AtatA1?4rk, an immortal revolutionist!"

"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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"Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought."

"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."

"It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value."

"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."

"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
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