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• You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business -- that takes a lot of audacity.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Tears, Trying, Panic

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• Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

  Rosario Ferre

  Country, Leader, Needs

  Rosario Ferré (1996). “Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories”, Plume Books

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• Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

  Lena Williams

  Ideas, People, Feel Good

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• The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly to the fact that no such person as King Arthur ever presided over a Round Table. Be this as it may, romance still hugs her heroes to her heart as possessions to be not willingly let die.

  H. A. Guerber

  Kings, Heart, Hands

  H. A. Guerber (1909). “Myths and Legends of the Middle Ages”, p.285, Courier Corporation

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• Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Focus, Monsters, May

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.156, Anchor

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• I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; hes very misunderstood. Hes a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

  Joni Mitchell

  Teacher, Rap, Tchaikovsky

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• Will Rogers was an American hero - someone you could get your teeth into and love.

  Willard Scott

  And Love, Teeth, Roger

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• If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

  Lennie James

  Real, People, Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!

  Imtiaz Ali

  Girl, Mom, Believe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

  Teju Cole

  Mean, Self, Play

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• I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Missing, Old Lady, Feels

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• Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.

  Edward Gibbon

  Pride, Reflection, Tyrants

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Support, Technique, Tasks

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• That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Sacrifice, Enchantment, Difficult

  Lloyd Alexander (2015). “The Black Cauldron 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.173, Macmillan

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• I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab
  world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero.

  George H. W. Bush

  Tyrants, Iraq, Broken

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.464, Vintage

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• Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

  Wole Soyinka

  Perfect, Community, Ashes

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from May 21, 2015

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• You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

  Maeve Binchy

  Country, Book, Thinking

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• We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

  Maeve Binchy

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Loss

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• It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, Memories, America

  Jefferson Davis (1923). “Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches”

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• I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Military, Wonder, Scholar

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.

  Leonard Cohen

  Two, Yeats, Lorca

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• His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

  Romain Rolland

  Distance, Book, Electric Shock

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• My heroes were always soccer players.

  Ronaldinho

  Soccer, Player, Soccer Player

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• I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

  Louis Sachar

  School, My Favorite, Salinger

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• No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.

  T. J. Oshie

  Real, Camo, Real Heroes

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