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“The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.”
Woody Allen
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
Henry Miller
“The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes”
Yiddish Proverb
“You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.”
Edmund Hillary
“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.”
Bette Davis
“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”
John Gay
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
Abigail Adams
“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.”
“Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges”
The Talmud
