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| "The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men." |
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| They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: |
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| Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. |
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| At the going down of the sun and in the morning, |
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| The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the |
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| inheritance of a great example. |
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| Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. |
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| Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. |
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| 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. |
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| Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
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| What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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| Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
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| A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
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| What is a hero without love for mankind. |
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| In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. |
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| Calculation never made a hero. |
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| No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one. |
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| We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. |
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| How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? |
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| Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. |
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| The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler. |
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| The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times. |
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| It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed? |
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| You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. |
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| I LOVE RED, WHITE AND BLUE. |
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| (sung to tune of "When the Saints Go Marching In")
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| And in the corner it is blue, |
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| Oh, our flag stands for our country, |
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| How I love red, white, and blue!
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| And in the corner it is blue, |
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| Oh, our flag stands for our country, |
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| How I love red, white, and blue!
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| And every state has its very own star. |
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| "We hold these truths to be self evident, |
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| that all men are created equal." |
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| "I know not what course others may take, |
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| give me liberty or give me death." |
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| "Our flag is red, white and blue, |
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| but our nation is a rainbow - |
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| red, yellow, brown, black and white - |
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| and we're all precious in God's sight." |
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| "Our flag is our national ensign, |
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| every stripe is articulate." |
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| Robert C. Winthrop (1809-1894), |
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| Senator from Massachusetts
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| "You can't appreciate home |
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| your wife until she's joined a woman's club, |
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| nor Old Glory till you see it hanging |
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| on a broomstick on a shanty |
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| of a consul in a foreign town." |
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