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"My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world."
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"You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero."
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"The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point."
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"The hero isn't the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame-deserved or not-and apologize to save a relationship."
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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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"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."
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"You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism."
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"Don't dare try to be heroes."
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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."
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"This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be."
Growth
"Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run."
Power
"Pretty, was she?""Pretty?" he echoed. "Mister, when I see my first lady angel, if God ever sees fit to show me one, it'll be her wings and not her face that'll make my mouth fall open. I've already seen the prettiest face that ever could be."
Faith
"When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it."
Gratitude
"The human race is a scummy thing, and so is Earth, and so are you."
Reality
"Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical."
Change
"All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!"
Freedom
"... the sea pirates who had the most to do with the creation of the newgovernment owned human slaves. They used human beings for machinery, and, evenafter slavery was eliminated, because it was so embarrassing, they and theirdescendants continued to think of ordinary human beings as machines."
History
"How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
Philosophy
"Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
Philosophy
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