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Daemon

Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:00:00 AM

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Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

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Posted: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 9:04:23 PM

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and how someone can come to know that there is a "heroic world" out there?

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