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title: "Popular Myth Thoughts"
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> [“They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-hamilton/they-yoked-themselves-to-a-car-and-drew-her-all-the-long-way-through/)

[Edith Hamilton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-hamilton/)

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> [My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/subramanian-swamy/my-main-contribution-was-to-demolish-the-myths-that-india-couldn-t/)

[Subramanian Swamy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/subramanian-swamy/)

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> [Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taryn-simon/simulations-directly-relate-to-the-process-of-and-complications-in/)

[Taryn Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taryn-simon/)

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> [You must forgive everyone. Now many would say that "We cannot forgive, it's very difficult." But it's a myth whether you forgive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nirmala-srivastava/you-must-forgive-everyone-now-many-would-say-that-we-cannot-forgive/)

[Nirmala Srivastava](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nirmala-srivastava/)

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> [If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/if-you-worship-money-and-things-if-they-are-where-you-tap-real/)

[David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/)

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> [One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sallust/one-may-call-the-world-a-myth-in-which-bodies-and-things-are-visible/)

[Sallust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sallust/)

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> [Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-louis-gates/arnold-rampersad-s-stunningly-revealing-biography-has-at-long-last/)

[Henry Louis Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-louis-gates/)

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> [I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/len-wiseman/i-love-helicopters-in-fact-my-wife-and-my-friends-the-myth-of-the/)

[Len Wiseman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/len-wiseman/)

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> [“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/northrop-frye/the-particular-myth-that-s-been-organizing-this-talk-and-in-a-way-the/)

[Northrop Frye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/northrop-frye/)

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> [To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/to-a-large-extent-the-aged-in-our-society-are-ghettoized-old-people/)

[Sam Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-keen/)

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> [I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-nolan/i-have-always-been-a-big-fan-of-the-character-and-am-more-of-a/)

[Christopher Nolan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-nolan/)

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> [The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucio-russo/the-age-long-history-of-thinking-on-gravitation-too-was-erased-from/)

[Lucio Russo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucio-russo/)

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> [“Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bradley-j-birzer/deeply-rooted-in-the-universalist-western-tradition-of-the-stoics-and/)

[Bradley J. Birzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bradley-j-birzer/)

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> [“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hughes/when-the-war-wwi-finally-ended-it-was-necessary-for-both-sides-to/)

[Robert Hughes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hughes/)

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> [America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/america-is-the-world-s-living-myth-there-s-no-sense-of-wrong-when-you/)

[Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/)

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> [ Writing a book about \[Buckminster Fuller\] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathon-keats/writing-a-book-about-buckminster-fuller-in-the-sense-of-deciding-how/)

[Jonathon Keats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathon-keats/)

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> [As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-shi/as-a-myth-of-national-purpose-and-as-a-program-for-individual-conduct/)

[David Shi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-shi/)

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> [In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-limbaugh/in-selling-his-scheme-obama-has-been-promoting-the-myth-that-our/)

[David Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-limbaugh/)

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> [“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/let-s-say-that-the-consensus-is-that-our-species-being-the-higher/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-kauffman/it-is-my-belief-that-we-need-a-new-transnational-sustaining-myth-that/)

[Stuart Kauffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-kauffman/)

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> [“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelli-jae-baeli/the-supernatural-worldview-is-causing-a-great-number-of-otherwise/)

[Kelli Jae Baeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelli-jae-baeli/)

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> [Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/l-frank-baum/folklore-legends-myths-and-fairy-tales-have-followed-childhood/)

[L. Frank Baum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/l-frank-baum/)

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> [Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-metaxas/ever-heard-of-anyone-executed-for-distributing-copies-of-grimm-s/)

[Eric Metaxas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-metaxas/)

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> [I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/damon-lindelof/i-believe-that-this-idea-of-story-or-myth-or-this-thing-that-joseph/)

[Damon Lindelof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/damon-lindelof/)

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> [Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sallust/now-the-myths-represent-the-gods-themselves-and-the-goodness-of-the/)

[Sallust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sallust/)

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> [I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/i-believe-you-have-to-write-every-day-make-the-time-it-s-about-having/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

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> [“Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-shestov/plato-would-hardly-need-to-change-a-single-word-of-his-myth-of-the/)

[Lev Shestov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-shestov/)

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> [I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walt-simonson/i-had-been-a-reader-of-thor-in-college-i-had-read-the-stan-lee-and/)

[Walt Simonson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walt-simonson/)

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> [ The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson \[Crusoe\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dumitru-tepeneag/the-literary-game-is-the-abyss-of-human-society-itself-interactive/)

[Dumitru Tepeneag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dumitru-tepeneag/)

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> [ For some reason there's this myth that creativity - \[especially\] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-kay/for-some-reason-there-s-this-myth-that-creativity-especially-in-terms/)

[Sarah Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-kay/)

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> [Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/had-there-been-no-renaissance-and-no-italian-influence-to-bring-in/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adolf-hitler/my-feeling-as-a-christian-points-me-to-my-lord-and-savior-as-a/)

[Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adolf-hitler/)

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> [What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-c-neal/what-i-find-more-remarkable-however-is-how-readily-many-people-in-our/)

[Mary C. Neal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-c-neal/)

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> ["The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-p-blavatsky/the-myths-says-horace-in-his-ars-poetica-have-been-invented-by-wise/)

[H. P. Blavatsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-p-blavatsky/)

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> [Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/economists-and-workplace-consultants-regard-it-as-almost-unquestioned/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-morpurgo/there-is-the-myth-that-writing-books-for-children-is-easier-than/)

[Michael Morpurgo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-morpurgo/)

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> [“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-herbert/greatness-is-a-transitory-experience-it-is-never-consistent-it-2/)

[Frank Herbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-herbert/)

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> [“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-k-jemisin/there-is-a-strange-emptiness-to-life-without-myths-i-am-african/)

[N.K. Jemisin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-k-jemisin/)

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> [“Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. “He’s a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum,” says one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-burke-anthony-burdge-kristine-larsen/cabinet-is-a-conscious-explicit-attempt-to-portray-the-doctor-himself/)

[Jessica Burke Anthony Burdge Kristine Larsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-burke-anthony-burdge-kristine-larsen/)

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> [Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rigoberta-menchu/today-the-governments-of-latin-america-should-be-ashamed-of-not/)

[Rigoberta Menchu](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rigoberta-menchu/)

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## Top authors on Myth

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                        "text": "You must forgive everyone. Now many would say that \"We cannot forgive, it's very difficult.\" But it's a myth whether you forgive or don't forgive. What do you do? You don't do anything. But when you don't forgive, then you are playing into wrong hands. That means you are torturing yourself, while those who have troubled you are quite happy.",
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                        "text": "If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.",
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                        "text": "One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.",
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                        "text": "Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.",
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                        "text": "I love helicopters. In fact, my wife and my friends, the myth of the chopper in the sky is that Len's going to stop and look at it. I love, probably, destroying them, yes. You know, It's the big elements, the big toys, the trucks the helicopters, and things like that. You have a few tools to play with.",
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                        "text": "“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible. The civilization we live in at present is a gigantic technological structure, a skyscraper almost high enough to reach the moon. It looks like a single world-wide effort, but it's really a deadlock of rivalries; it looks very impressive, except that it has no genuine human dignity. For all its wonderful machinery, we know it's really a crazy ramshackle building, and at any time may crash around our ears. What the myth tells us is that the Tower of Babel is a work of human imagination, that its main elements are words, and that what will make it collapse is a confusion of tongues. All had originally one language, the myth says. The language is not English or Russian or Chinese or any common ancestor, if there was one. It is the language that makes Shakespeare and Pushkin authentic poets, that gives a social vision to both Lincoln and Gandhi. It never speaks unless we take the time to listen in leisure, and it speaks only in a voice too quiet for panic to hear. And then all it has to tell us, when we look over the edge of our leaning tower, is that we are not getting any nearer heaven, and that it is time to return to earth. [p.98]”",
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                        "text": "To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.",
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                        "text": "I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great powerful myth to the character and romantic element that draws from a lot of literary sources",
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                        "text": "The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.",
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                        "text": "“Deeply rooted in the universalist Western tradition of the Stoics and the the early medieval Christians, Tolkien created a myth to explore the nature of the human person against the avaricious dreams of the capitalists and the diabolical schemes of the national and international socialists, all of whom would replace God with man.”",
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                        "text": "“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was: a meaningless waste of millions of lives. Logically, if the flower of youth had been cut down in Flanders, the survivors were not the flower: the dead were superior to the traumatized living. In this way, the virtual destruction of a generation further increased the distance between the old and the young, between the official and the unofficial.”",
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                        "text": "America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.",
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                        "text": "Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and how much I can leave out is relatively easy as it is because the true believers already know everything. They know a lot of things that are not true and they know a lot of things that I thought were (and seems there's very good evidence not to believe) and therefore, my starting point was I think to tell his myth because that's what grabbed me.",
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                        "text": "As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience, reminding Americans of what the founders had hoped they would be and thereby providing a vivifying counterpoint to the excesses of materialist individualism.",
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                        "text": "In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations. His recent statements have betrayed his openly contemptuous attitude toward American health care and out top-flight medical profession. His attitude is consistent with his revealed general attitude about America, which he denigrates every time he gets a chance, especially on foreign soil.",
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                        "text": "“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks 'That's enough of that. It's time to intervene,' and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don't lets appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person. Why am I glad this is the case? To get to the point of the wrongness of Christianity, because I think the teachings of Christianity are immoral. The central one is the most immoral of all, and that is the one of vicarious redemption. You can throw your sins onto somebody else, vulgarly known as scapegoating. In fact, originating as scapegoating in the same area, the same desert. I can pay your debt if I love you. I can serve your term in prison if I love you very much. I can volunteer to do that. I can't take your sins away, because I can't abolish your responsibility, and I shouldn't offer to do so. Your responsibility has to stay with you. There's no vicarious redemption. There very probably, in fact, is no redemption at all. It's just a part of wish-thinking, and I don't think wish-thinking is good for people either. It even manages to pollute the central question, the word I just employed, the most important word of all: the word love, by making love compulsory, by saying you MUST love. You must love your neighbour as yourself, something you can't actually do. You'll always fall short, so you can always be found guilty. By saying you must love someone who you also must fear. That's to say a supreme being, an eternal father, someone of whom you must be afraid, but you must love him, too. If you fail in this duty, you're again a wretched sinner. This is not mentally or morally or intellectually healthy. And that brings me to the final objection - I'll condense it, Dr. Orlafsky - which is, this is a totalitarian system. If there was a God who could do these things and demand these things of us, and he was eternal and unchanging, we'd be living under a dictatorship from which there is no appeal, and one that can never change and one that knows our thoughts and can convict us of thought crime, and condemn us to eternal punishment for actions that we are condemned in advance to be taking. All this in the round, and I could say more, it's an excellent thing that we have absolutely no reason to believe any of it to be true.”",
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                        "text": "It is my belief that we need a new transnational sustaining 'myth' that can impart value and respect. It is my further belief that we are coming to see our universe and life as creative, without a directing agency. Meaning emerges with life. If this view becomes widespread, it has the promise to become the sustaining myth we need to sustain in turn an emerging global civilization.",
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                        "text": "“The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and never will serve humanity in any ultimately beneficial way. Any benefits that spirituality ostensibly provides to its adherents, can be found equally in the worldview of philosophy and ethics, communities of other kinds, and so on. It's a myth that the only morality, hope, purpose and comfort to be found, resides only in the supernatural.”",
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                        "text": "Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.",
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                        "text": "Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.",
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                        "text": "I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force - like The Force in 'Star Wars' - where it doesn't matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.",
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                        "text": "Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.",
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                        "text": "I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.",
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                        "text": "“Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to furnish an answer to his anxiety, his disquietude, his \"premonitions.\" The world would remain for him, \"in the light\" of our \"positive\" sciences, what it was - a dark and sorrowful subterranean region - and we would seem to him like chained prisoners. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, \"as in a battle,\" to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which \"dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality.\" [1] In brief, Aristotle would bless our knowledge while Plato would curse it.”",
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                        "text": "I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had been a Norse mythology fan since I was a kid and was thrilled to discover a comic that was kind of based on Norse mythology-there's not a one-to-one correspondence, but there's no reason there should be. I was delighted to find it, and I didn't care that it wasn't exactly the myth. For one thing, Thor didn't have red hair in the comics. I was fine with that.",
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                        "text": "The literary game is the abyss of human society itself: interactive, playful and tragic. We can't live alone. For me, Robinson [Crusoe] is either a false myth or else he represents the denial of human society. We can't play by ourselves. In literature, it's even more complicated, because one has to play with an indeterminate number of players simultaneously and every game is different. The other player can abandon your game at any time...to go play chess.",
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                        "text": "Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.",
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                        "text": "“My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed his blood upon the Cross.”",
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                        "text": "What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and Coke, JFK assassination, AIDS is man-made, etc.), yet disregard thousands of personal and consistent testimonies of miracles and near-death experiences from people throughout all cultures and religions.",
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                        "text": "\"The myths,\" says Horace in his Ars Poetica, \"have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths.\" While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that \"myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations.\" It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.",
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                        "text": "Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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                        "text": "There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.",
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                        "text": "“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”",
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                        "text": "“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves, rather than a descendant of immigrants who came here willingly and with lives more or less intact. My ancestors were the unwilling, unintact ones: children torn from parents, parents torn from elders, people torn from roots, stories torn from language. Past a certain point, my family’s history just… stops. As if there was nothing there. I could do what others have done, and attempt to reconstruct this lost past. I could research genealogy and genetics, search for the traces of myself in moldering old sale documents and scanned images on microfiche. I could also do what members of other cultures lacking myths have done: steal. A little BS about Atlantis here, some appropriation of other cultures’ intellectual property there, and bam! Instant historically-justified superiority. Worked great for the Nazis, new and old. Even today, white people in my neck of the woods call themselves “Caucasian”, most of them little realizing that the term and its history are as constructed as anything sold in the fantasy section of a bookstore. These are proven strategies, but I have no interest in them. They’ll tell me where I came from, but not what I really want to know: where I’m going. To figure that out, I make shit up.”",
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                        "text": "“Cabinet is a conscious, explicit attempt to portray the Doctor himself as myth. “He’s a mischief, a leprechaun, a boojum,” says one character, bookseller and collector of incunabula, Syme. “The Doctor is a myth. He’s straight out of Old English folklore, typical trickster figure really.”29 Neither part of an ongoing narrative, nor specifically located within the series’ past, Cabinet is in a position to challenge the portrayal of the Doctor.”",
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                        "text": "Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.",
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