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Be A Hero

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A DOSE OF POWER LIVING®: Be A Hero – As Joseph Campbell said, “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”

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We need to spend our time helping to make it easier for the people who are on the front lines of change, in our country and in this world.
-Ruby Dee

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
- Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
- Sun Tzu

He serves his party best who serves the country best.
– Rutherford B. Hayes (19th U.S. President)

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa – particularly the ‘forgotten emergencies’ in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
- Desmond Tutu

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
- Khalil Gibran

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
- Nelson Mandela