Heroes exterminate each other for the sake of people who are not heroes.

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• With heroes like us,
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• People are only heroes when they can't do anything else.
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• It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene,
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• Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
  Havelock...
• To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
  Havelock...
• Many of this country's heroes were once Boy
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