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"There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are 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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"In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business-and I wanted to try to reflect that."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism."
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Personal Development
"Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world."
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Personal Development
"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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"Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else."
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Personal Development
"In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism."
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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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"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Dream
"The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact."
Spiritual
"Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated."
Education
"In wilderness is the preservation of the world."
Nature
"I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment."
Attitude
"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."
Wisdom
"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost."
Wisdom
"The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day."
Art
"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve."
Wisdom
"See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds."
Self
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