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History never looks like history when you are living through it.

—John W. Gardner

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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

—J. W. Schopf

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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

—Henry Ford

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

—Cicero

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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

—Will Rogers

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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

—Will Rogers

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Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.

—Umberto Eco

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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

—John Barth

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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

—Bob Dylan

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Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

—Bette Davis

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The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

—Unknown

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Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

—Unknown

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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

—Scott Westerfeld

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