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Hero

(noun) Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds.

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"The world is not moved only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
— Helen Keller
"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. Numbers sanctify."
— Charlie Chaplin
"The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred."
— Dalai Lama
"A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men."
— Plato
"Never bribe yourself. Be whole. Be your own hero."
— Kyrah Edwards
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We do not have to become heroes overnight."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic."
— George Carlin
"The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare."
— James Baldwin
"I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's."
— Groucho Marx

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