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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

Robert Shea

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We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Bobby Seale

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Police

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Ken Salazar

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Martin

It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Cowards

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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Will Rogers

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Evil

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