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We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Heroes and Heroism
Helen Hayes

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Age and Aging
Ernest Hemingway

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Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.
Doctors
Hippocrates

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Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.
Heroes and Heroism
Doug Horton

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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Coward and Cowardice
Dolores Ibarruri

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Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Heroes and Heroism
Gerald W. Johnson

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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Heroes and Heroism
Samuel Johnson

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My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Heroes and Heroism
Michael Jordan

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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Heroes and Heroism
Kitty Kelley

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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
Coward and Cowardice
Marvin Kitman

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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Difficulties
Louis Kossuth

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Heroes and Heroism
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
Weakness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Poetry and Poets
Alphonse De Lamartine

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What is a hero without love for mankind.
Heroes and Heroism
Doris Lessing

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Life and Living
Mary Mccarthy

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Heroes and Heroism
H. L. Mencken

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The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Heroes and Heroism
Henry Miller

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I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Coward and Cowardice
Spike Milligan

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Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
Writers and Writing
John Milton

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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
Mediocrity
Brian Moore

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Calculation never made a hero.
Heroes and Heroism
John Henry Newman

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
Faith
Charles H. Parkhurst

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No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Heroes and Heroism
Jean Paul

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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Gentlemen
Luigi Pirandello

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun