We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Abraham H. Maslow

Tags: wisdom good heroes superstition wise gods supernatural disbelief statesmen explain sages



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He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he'd remember to bring a comb.

J.V. Jones

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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Fred Rogers

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston S. Churchill

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You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

Paul Gallico

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I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

Alfred de Vigny

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No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

Terry Pratchett

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Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

Robin McKinley

Tags: humor heroes destruction cleaning cleaning-lady



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Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

Paul Simon

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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

Nikolai Gogol

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