“ History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. ”
- E. L. Doctorow- Copy
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“ It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. ”
- Greil Marcus- Copy
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“ It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. ”
- Irwin Edman- Copy
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“ The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. ”
- Robert Penn Warren- Copy
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“ I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Learning to touch deeply the jewels of our own tradition will allow us to understand and appreciate the values of other traditions. ”
- Thich Nhat Hanh- Copy
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“ It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem. ”
- Robbie Williams- Copy
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“ I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts — That hope always triumphs over experience — That laughter is the only cure for grief… ”
- Robert Fulghum- Copy
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“ The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values… ”
- Ann Oakley- Copy
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“ The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill. ”
- Robert Heller- Copy
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“ If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young. ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
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“ The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. ”
- Italo Calvino- Copy
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“ The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. ”
- Mikhail Strabo- Copy
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“ There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to "realize" myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have "succeeded," this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is "realizable… ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
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“ Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis. ”
- Brad Holland- Copy
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“ Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men's reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of "the rat race" is not yet final. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson- Copy
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“ No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality, but it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers, and it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
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“ In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. ”
- Brooks Atkinson- Copy
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