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“My mama didn't raise any fools and she didn't raise any heroes.”

Fool Hero Raises Mama

Book:Tidal

Source: Tidal

“I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.”

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Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.”

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Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.”

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Author:African Spir

“Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.”

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Author:Stephen Frears

“Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.”

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Author:Arthur L. Herman

“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.”

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Author:Margaret Mitchell

“We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”

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Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“But heroes, at times, had to be fools.”

Book:The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle

Source: The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle