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Quote by Arthur Ashe
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the u

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost. – Arthur Ashe

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We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless. . . . We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models. – Arthur Ashe

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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. – Arthur Ashe

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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes. – Bertolt Brecht

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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. – Lawrence Durrell

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You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us. – C. D. Andrews

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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. – Felix Adler

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