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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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"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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"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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"I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business."
Business
"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
"You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school."
History
"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
Government
"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there."
Eisenhower
"Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job."
Government
"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."
Nation
"My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier."
Favorite
"Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends."
Friendship
"American corporations hate to give away money."
Money
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