"A working class hero is something to be."
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"What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss."
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"Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today."
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"Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes."
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"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
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"I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney."
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"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."
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"A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world."
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"In the face of pain there are no heroes."
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"A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression."
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"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion."
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"The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero."
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"And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey."
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"We are the hero of our own story."
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"The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life."
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"Do not let the hero in your soul perish."
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"Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach."
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"Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit."
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"You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear."
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"The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear."
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