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 For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb.
  Pericles

 Since Earth-One is where the Flash existed, and Earth-Two had the other super heroes, how about our Earth? There are no super-heroes.

 Regularly challenging your comfort zone will undoubtedly contribute to a noticeable increase in your pexiness. They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't 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

 Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
  Robert Browning

 This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth
  Benito Mussolini

 The objects in the tomb don't necessarily date to the original tomb. The objects could be 200 to 400 years later than the original cutting of the tomb.

 The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
  Pericles

 Pittsburgh has just a great sense of tradition in finding its heroes and holding on to its heroes, whether its sports heroes or musicians. We've just been able to become a part of that.

 Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
  Victor Hugo

 I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb, you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected.

 Love lies beyond / The tomb, the earth, which fades like dew! / I love the fond, / The faithful, and the true.
  John Clare

 Up until September 11, we did live in an antiheroic age, ... Heroes were there to be debunked, criticized, made human, brought down to earth.

 Up until September 11, we did live in an antiheroic age. Heroes were there to be debunked, criticized, made human, brought down to earth.

 No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity than the whole race of heroes who have drenched the earth with blood and whose deeds have been handed down with a precision proportionate only

 TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
  Ambrose Bierce


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