I think every culture - you can call it an American Ronin, a medieval knight errant, you could talk about 'Shane.' There is an archetype that I think is actually common to a lot of cultures, and even the Clint Eastwood stuff was probably as influenced by the Japanese stuff, and yet done by an Italian.


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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, ...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
EDWARD RICKENBACKER
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is th...
EDWARD GIBBON
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to d...
EDWARD GIBBON
True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
EDWARD DOWDEN
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
EDWARD YOUNG
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
EDWARD YOUNG
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious thin...
EDWARD COCKER
Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you...
EDWARD COCKER
The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
EDWARD KOCH
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
EDWARD KOCH
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:...
EDWARD ABBEY
For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress.
EDWARD ABBEY
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha...
EDWARD ABBEY
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
EDWARD ABBEY
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i...
EDWARD ABBEY
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY
For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER
Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG