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“King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.”

Book:The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

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“The story of Superman is functionally now a mythological influence to heroic characters within other stories that are meant to serve as mythological influences to us real-world humans. His seems to be a sort of prime contemporary hero story from which other contemporary hero stories emerge and draw their influence.”

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Book:The Heroic and Exceptional Minority: A Guide to Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth

Source: The Heroic and Exceptional Minority: A Guide to Mythological Self-Awareness and Growth

“Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.”

Past History Genius Future Present Heros

Book:Take No More

Source: Take No More

“I have to keep my mouth shut about Nam though. All of these guys want to believe they were fighting an honorable war, and that their conduct deserves respect. They want the public to treat them like they’re heroes—like the WWII vets were.” “Instead, smart ass, pampered kids call them names and throw dog shit at them.”

Vietnam War Heros

Book:Hurricane Ginger

Source: Hurricane Ginger

“It is an interesting thing, love ,” the Princess stated. “It can turn lambs into heroes, and heroes into lambs.”

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Book:The Wall Outside

Source: The Wall Outside

“There are threads of fiction intricately woven into our muscles. Fictional characters such as Superman, Black Panther, Wonder Woman etc., are birthed from something struggling to come alife from deep within us.”

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Author:Nike Thaddeus

“The poetry of Homer, sprung from the soil of legend, is not yet wholly detached from it, even as the figures of a bas-relief adhere to an extraneous backing of the original block. These figures are but slightly raised, and in the epic poem all is painted as past and remote. In bas- relief the figures are usually in profile, and in the epos all are characterized in the simplest manner in relief; they are not grouped together, but follow one another; so Homer's heroes advance, one by one, in succession before us. It has been remarked that the Iliad is not definitively closed, but that we are left to suppose something both to precede and to follow it. The bas-relief is equally without limit, and may be continued ad infinitum, either from before or behind, on which account the ancients preferred for it such subjects as admitted of an indefinite extension, sacrificial processions, dances, and lines of combatants, &c. Hence they also exhibited bas-reliefs on curved surfaces, such as vases, or the frieze of a rotunda, where, by the curvature, the two ends are withdrawn from our sight, and where, while we advance, one object appears as another disappears. Reading Homer is very much like such a circuit; the present object alone arresting our attention, we lose sight of that which precedes, and do not concern ourselves about what is to follow.”

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Book:Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Source: Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

“Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?”

Ideas Learning Questions Champions Heros

Book:The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas

Source: The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas

“Heros they're not always tough or brave, and the last look on their face is scared or uncertain like rethinking the choice they just made. But they don't change their mind, they stick to it. Then boom they're gone”

Life Heros Insporational

Author:haley jackson

“Starting out a new day gives hope for new adventures, villains and hero's to cross your path. Make the most of it.”

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Author:Anastasia Bolinder

“I squared my shoulders and told it that I was trying to be a goddamn hero and it was going to give me a break. It flickered soft silver before it formed the image of a woman. "Finally. I am proud," it said before it dropped me back into the normal world with a thud.”

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Book:Ritual Ink

Source: Ritual Ink

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