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"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
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"In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism."
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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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"Heroes can be sweet."
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"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
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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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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."
Money
"Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will."
Power
"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
Friendship
"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
Business
"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."
Success
"The American Constitution is the greatest governing document, and at some 7,000 words, just about the shortest."
Constitution
"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one."
Man
"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
Faith
"In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since."
People
"The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake."
War
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