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"I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?"Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War."
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"Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes."

"I think you're my hero, ' she said. Only half - kidding.He stared at her, the picture of incredulity. 'Most people, ' he said, 'think I am a very bad man.'She studied his eyes to try to find out if that bothered him. He didn't seem bothered by them. He seemed discomfited by her. 'Well, ' she said at last, 'maybe you're a very good dragon."

"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."

"A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve."

"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."
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