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Your Quotes for 25 September 2005 - Heroes

The birthday list today includes three actors that suggested today's theme. Michael Douglas, son of another heroic figure, was born at New Brunswick, New Jersey on this day in 1944. Mark Hamill, Jedi knight Luke Skywalker, was born at Oakland, California in 1952. And then there is the quintessential hero, the Man of Steel, fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Superman. Christopher Reeves was born at New York City, also in 1952, and as he fights back after his paralyzing accident, he is a hero in real life as well as on screen. As these quotes tell, you can be hero as well.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts, to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
     - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804 - 1881

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers, and martyrs the greater part will never be known.
     - Charles Reade

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
     - Nathaniel Hawthorne

All great stories have three acts. In the first act, the heroes are introduced to great fanfare. In the second, the heroes, on the verge of victory, stumble and take a fall. And in the third act, the heroes return, victorious, to win the battle.
     - Ted Leonsis

That which we are, we are.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
made weak by time and fate.
But strong in will,
to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yeild.
     - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
     - Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784

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