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

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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. – Arthur Ashe

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If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life. – Arthur Ashe

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To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. – Charles Horton Cooley

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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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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. – English Proverb

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They wouldnt be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldnt be heroes if they werent miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again. – Lester Bangs

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