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"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
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"There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes."
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"Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws."
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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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"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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"You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism."
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"Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world."
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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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"Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else."
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"You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself."
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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
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"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
"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education."
Education
"To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way."
History
"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."
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"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
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"Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life."
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"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
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"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men."
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"Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice."
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