Unhappy is the land without heroes.
--Bertolt Brecht
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We seem to worship celebrities today, not heroes.
--Bill Moyers, speaking of the 1990s
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Heroes have substance.
--David McCullough ("Forgotten Heroes")
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The hero is he whom every American should wish to
be.
--Dixon Wecter ("The Hero in
America:
A Chronicle of Hero-Worship")
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A society needs heroes to pull together tendencies to
separation.
--Joseph Campbell ("The Hero's Adventure")
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the
responsibility
that comes with his freedom.
--Bob Dylan
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the
strength to persevere in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
--Christopher Reeve
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The hero does his work well and makes a unique
contribution
to the public good.
--Sidney Hook ("The Hero in History")
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Today seems always less heroic than yesterday.
--Dixon Wecter ("The Hero in America: A
Chronicle
of Hero-Worship")
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The person of solid values who can be admired for
something
more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung
hero.
--Daniel Boorstin
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely
decent human
being.
--May Sarton
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