"The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires."
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"You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are."
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"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards."
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"Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero."
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"If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play"
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"Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded."
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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women."
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"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
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"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions."
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"Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much."
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"As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is."
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"In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions. Nor is it necessary to portray many main characters. Let two people be the center of gravity in your story: he and she."
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"Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!"
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"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."
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"My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight."
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"For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us."
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"My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes."
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"Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something."
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"Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats."
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"Hear this or not, as you will. Learn it now, or later -- the world has time. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui -- these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real."
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