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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.
-- Felix Adler
1851-1933, American Educator,
Social Critic
You lived too
long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their
deaths on us.
-- C. D. Andrews
1913-1992, British Poet,
Scholar
Listen, my
friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming
and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding,
working, counting their pennies; people who just live;
ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then
there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones
you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one
minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being
marched away between two gendarmes.
-- Jean Anouilh
1910-1987, French Playwright
They wouldn't
be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be
heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs
of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an
idol is to tear it down again.
-- Lester Bangs
1948-1982, American Rock
Journalist
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Everyone is
necessarily the hero of his own life story.
-- John Barth
1930-, American Novelist,
Short Story Writer
What is a
society without a heroic dimension?
-- Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern
Philosopher, Writer
The world's
battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism
has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on
the most memorable battlefields in history.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher,
Orator, Writer
True heroism
consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever
shape they may challenge us to combat.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General,
Emperor
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