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title: "Popular Myth Wisdom"
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> [“It is your task to walk back from the woods with an animal, not a pelt, not a corpse, but something alive.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-shaw/it-is-your-task-to-walk-back-from-the-woods-with-an-animal-not-a-pelt/)

[Martin Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-shaw/)

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> [“One of the misconceptions about atheism is that it somehow means someone denies the possibility of a deity. In all actuality, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-g-mcafee/one-of-the-misconceptions-about-atheism-is-that-it-somehow-means/)

[David G. McAfee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-g-mcafee/)

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> [After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loren-eiseley/after-chiding-the-theologian-for-his-reliance-on-myth-and-miracle/)

[Loren Eiseley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loren-eiseley/)

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> [But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-j-rushdoony/but-integration-and-equality-are-myths-they-disguise-a-new/)

[R.J. Rushdoony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-j-rushdoony/)

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> [Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/our-society-does-reward-beauty-on-the-outside-over-health-on-the/)

[Naomi Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-wolf/)

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> [“Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-steinhauer/now-i-pray-you-cast-yourself-into-a-different-world-a-different-trail/)

Alexis Steinhauer

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> [There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mizuko-ito/there-are-myths-about-kids-spending-time-online-that-it-is-dangerous/)

Mizuko Ito

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> [We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lindsay-abaire/we-have-this-myth-that-if-you-work-hard-you-can-accomplish-anything/)

[David Lindsay-Abaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lindsay-abaire/)

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> [“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-a-segment-of-the-sermon-on-the-mount-appearing-in-matthew-5-jesus/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-bloom/we-need-to-be-much-clearer-about-what-we-do-and-do-not-know-so-that/)

[Benjamin Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-bloom/)

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> [There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-lee/there-s-so-much-myth-and-baloney-like-a-80-year-old-man-able-to/)

[Bruce Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-lee/)

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> [“The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-erdrich/the-pattern-glitters-with-cruelty-the-blue-beads-are-colored-with/)

[Louise Erdrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-erdrich/)

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> [The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/the-idea-that-the-creative-endeavor-and-mind-altering-substances-are/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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> [A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-anger/a-death-mirror-held-up-to-american-culture-brando-bikes-and-black/)

[Kenneth Anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-anger/)

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> [Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-freire/even-revolution-which-transforms-a-concrete-situation-of-oppression/)

[Paulo Freire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-freire/)

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> [When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-hobb/when-we-come-back-to-fantasy-i-think-we-re-actually-coming-back-to/)

[Robin Hobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-hobb/)

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> [“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/fiction-is-written-with-reality-and-reality-is-written-with-fiction/)

[C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/)

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> [ Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I \[make a\] portrait \[of\] you,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pedro-meyer/before-the-myth-of-photography-doesn-t-lie-was-used-in-order-to-cover/)

[Pedro Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pedro-meyer/)

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> [A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-fiennes/a-large-part-of-how-an-actor-works-and-their-process-is-the/)

[Joseph Fiennes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-fiennes/)

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> [Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-utley/incredibly-deep-research-combines-with-the-talents-of-a-fine/)

Robert M. Utley

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> [Salt is a powerful symbol in Haiti, as elsewhere. Salt of the earth, for example is an American phrase. In Haiti, myth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwidge-danticat/salt-is-a-powerful-symbol-in-haiti-as-elsewhere-salt-of-the-earth-for/)

[Edwidge Danticat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwidge-danticat/)

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> [Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rami-m-shapiro/organized-religion-is-sane-and-not-silly-when-read-as-myth-and-poetry/)

[Rami M. Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rami-m-shapiro/)

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> [“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/darwin-with-his-origin-of-species-his-theories-about-natural/)

[Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/)

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> [“Regardless of the fact that the express purpose of God's Deluge is to kill off most of mankind--apart, of course, from Noah…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/regardless-of-the-fact-that-the-express-purpose-of-god-s-deluge-is-to/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

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> [When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/when-you-look-at-that-nature-world-it-becomes-an-icon-it-becomes-a/)

[Joseph Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-campbell/)

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> [It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-johnson/it-is-a-myth-that-alcoholics-have-some-spontaneous-insight-and-then/)

Vernon Johnson

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> [Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-brin/beware-of-self-indulgence-the-romance-surrounding-the-writing/)

[David Brin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-brin/)

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> [It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/it-s-perfectly-clear-to-me-that-religion-is-a-myth-it-s-something-we/)

[Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/)

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> [Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth/your-being-alone-is-important-and-has-validity-beyond-any-philosophy/)

[Seth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth/)

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> [“There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death. This belief that life is inherently preferable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitchell-heisman/there-is-a-very-popular-opinion-that-choosing-life-is-inherently/)

[Mitchell Heisman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitchell-heisman/)

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> [This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/this-evil-this-concept-it-comes-from-disappointment-from-bitterness/)

[Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/)

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> [To me there is nothing more sacred than love and laughter, and there is nothing more prayerful than playfulness. When you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rajneesh/to-me-there-is-nothing-more-sacred-than-love-and-laughter-and-there-2/)

[Rajneesh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rajneesh/)

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> [At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-dumont/at-the-root-of-the-noble-savage-myth-is-this-basic-truth-the-savage/)

[Bruno Dumont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-dumont/)

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> [I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-could-scream-down-90-mountains-to-less-than-dust-if-only-one-living/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [“Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/putting-it-negatively-the-myth-of-eternal-return-states-that-a-life/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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> [We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beyonce-knowles/we-need-to-stop-buying-into-the-myth-about-gender-equality-it-isn-t-a/)

[Beyonce Knowles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beyonce-knowles/)

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> [Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/camille-paglia/sappho-is-a-great-poet-because-she-is-a-lesbian-which-gives-her/)

[Camille Paglia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/camille-paglia/)

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> [Sciences have the view of looking at the world as individual pieces and this has been going on now for about 300…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-mctaggart/sciences-have-the-view-of-looking-at-the-world-as-individual-pieces/)

[Lynne McTaggart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-mctaggart/)

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> [“Our definition of ‘myth’ in common parlance: a widely believed, but false story. That’s the definition Anant so helpfully illustrated. But that’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordanna-max-brodsky/our-definition-of-myth-in-common-parlance-a-widely-believed-but-false/)

Jordanna Max Brodsky

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> [Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/science-shares-with-religion-the-claim-that-it-answers-deep-questions/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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                        "text": "After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.",
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                        "text": "But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.",
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                        "text": "Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty \"fixes\" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.",
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                        "text": "“Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live and breathe, where they are as real in touch and voice as you or I. Where they face the same extinction every day that they have suffered in our world: the extinction of myth . . . yet where they battle every moment to fend off such a fate for another day . . .”",
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                        "text": "There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.",
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                        "text": "We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.",
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                        "text": "“In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such words as 'You have heard that it was said by them of old time' and the former by 'But I say unto you.' Since both the teachings of old time and Jesus' new teachings are predicated on the same profoundly mistaken views of human nature and of the world in general, it is unimportant for us here today to compare and contrast these teachings or to determine which is better or worse in some way or other. The point is that whether better or worse, in this way or that, both are lodged in an egregiously mistaken mythology -- but in a mythology of enormous importance for us, because it is one of the wellsprings of Western culture.”",
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                        "text": "We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on, while what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.",
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                        "text": "There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?",
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                        "text": "“The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in borders of mercy. The yellows are dyed with the ocher of silence. There is no telling which twin will fall asleep first, allowing the other's colors to dominate, for how long. The design grows, the overlay deepens. The beaders have no other order at the heart of their being. Do you know that the beads are sewn onto the fabric of the earth with endless strands of human muscle, human sinew, human hair? We are as crucial to this making as other animals. No more and no less important than the deer.”",
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                        "text": "The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.",
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                        "text": "A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.",
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                        "text": "Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.",
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                        "text": "When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.",
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                        "text": "“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as \"fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales.\" And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day \"advancements\" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question \"Who designated myths and legends as unreality? \" But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors \"You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things\" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.”",
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                        "text": "Before, the myth of photography doesn't lie was used in order to cover up tricks. If I [make a] portrait [of] you, accommodate you, illuminate you, put make up on you or use a filter, am I not manipulating reality? The only difference is that now I can do it from the computer in the postclick instead of the preclick. If I decide to photograph something instead of something else, I also manipulate reality. Of course a photograph can lie or commit abuse, but it always could.",
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                        "text": "A large part of how an actor works and their process is the stimulation of what's around you, and none more so than in a period piece. This is a modern piece, as much as it is set in a different time, age and myth. If it wasn't relevant, it wouldn't have been made and we wouldn't be putting our energy into it. It's relevant for us today because, in some ways, it throws up a mirror to all of us. As an actor, you get stimulus and you're effected by that, whether it's costumes or funny beards or castles.",
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                        "text": "Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of these two iconic westerners emerge to suppress myth and correct more than a century of tomes laden with bad history.",
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                        "text": "Salt is a powerful symbol in Haiti, as elsewhere. Salt of the earth, for example is an American phrase. In Haiti, myth and legend has it that if you are turned into a zombie, if someone gives you a taste of salt, then you can come back to life. And in the life of the fishermen, there are so many little things about salt that I wanted to incorporate. The salt in the air. The crackling of salt in the fire. There's all this damage, this peeling of the fishing boats from the sea salt. But there is also healing from it, sea baths that are supposed to heal all kinds of aches and wounds.",
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                        "text": "Organized religion is sane and not silly when read as myth and poetry rather than science and law. Religion speaks nonsense when taken literally, but reveals some of the deepest truths of humankind when understood mythically, poetically, and even allegorically-that is when it is read with an active and creative imagination.",
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                        "text": "“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed a flood of light upon the great problems of plant and animal life. These things had been guessed, prophesied, asserted, hinted by many others, but Darwin, with infinite patience, with perfect care and candor, found the facts, fulfilled the prophecies, and demonstrated the truth of the guesses, hints and assertions. He was, in my judgment, the keenest observer, the best judge of the meaning and value of a fact, the greatest Naturalist the world has produced. The theological view began to look small and mean. Spencer gave his theory of evolution and sustained it by countless facts. He stood at a great height, and with the eyes of a philosopher, a profound thinker, surveyed the world. He has influenced the thought of the wisest. Theology looked more absurd than ever. Huxley entered the lists for Darwin. No man ever had a sharper sword -- a better shield. He challenged the world. The great theologians and the small scientists -- those who had more courage than sense, accepted the challenge. Their poor bodies were carried away by their friends. Huxley had intelligence, industry, genius, and the courage to express his thought. He was absolutely loyal to what he thought was truth. Without prejudice and without fear, he followed the footsteps of life from the lowest to the highest forms. Theology looked smaller still. Haeckel began at the simplest cell, went from change to change -- from form to form -- followed the line of development, the path of life, until he reached the human race. It was all natural. There had been no interference from without. I read the works of these great men -- of many others – and became convinced that they were right, and that all the theologians -- all the believers in \"special creation\" were absolutely wrong. The Garden of Eden faded away, Adam and Eve fell back to dust, the snake crawled into the grass, and Jehovah became a miserable myth.”",
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                        "text": "“Regardless of the fact that the express purpose of God's Deluge is to kill off most of mankind--apart, of course, from Noah and his descendants--there is talk of the need to: 'heal the earth which the angels have corrupted ... that all the children of men may not perish through all the secret things which the Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons.' [...] From such admonishments we may reasonably deduce a number of things about the Watchers, most particularly that they must be about the right size and shape, and equipped, moreover, with the necessary organs and impulses to want, to have and to enjoy sex with human women. To me, the obvious conclusion from this is that the Watchers are in fact human, or at any rate extremely closely related at the genetic level to anatomically modern human beings--close enough, indeed, to make human women pregnant and to have \"children of fornication\" with them. These offspring are not sickly as one might expect from an even slightly mismatched genetic makeup. On the contrary, they thrive so vigorously that Enoch, or the \"good\" angels speaking through him, want not only to destroy the Watchers but also to 'destroy the children of the Watchers.' [...] So now further clarity begins to emerge. A group of bad angels, \"Watchers of the heaven,\" have come to earth--\"descended,\" specifically, on Mount Hermon in Lebanon--transferred some technology, mated with human females, and produced offspring who are in some way gigantic and are called Nephilim.”",
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                        "text": "When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost every mythology sees the origins of life coming out of water. And, curiously, that's true. It's amusing that the origin of life out of water is in myths and then again, finally, in science, we find the same thing. It's exactly so.",
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                        "text": "It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to treatment out of spontaneous insight - typically, in our experience they come to their recognition scenes through a buildup of crises that crash through their almost impenetrable defense systems. They are forced to seek help; and when they don't, they perish miserably.",
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                        "text": "Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.",
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                        "text": "It's perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It's something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to the humankind and nature on this planet and in the universe. I am in overwhelming awe of it all: It is so fantastic, so complex, so beyond comprehension. What does it all mean -- if it has any meaning at all? But how can it all exist if it doesn't have some kind of meaning? I think anyone who suggests that they have the answer is motivated by the need to invent answers, because we have no such answers.",
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                        "text": "This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural?",
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                        "text": "I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.",
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                        "text": "“Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, is like a shadow, without weight, dead in advance, and whether it was horrible, beautiful, or sublime, its horror, sublimity, and beauty mean nothing.”",
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                        "text": "Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism.",
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                        "text": "“Our definition of ‘myth’ in common parlance: a widely believed, but false story. That’s the definition Anant so helpfully illustrated. But that’s not how the Greeks defined it.” Theo turned to the whiteboard behind him and scrawled “μῦθος: muthos” in large blue letters. “Muthos just means ‘story.’ No connotation of fictitiousness. The Greeks didn’t question whether Persephone had actually been abducted by Hades, or whether Artemis truly turned the hunter Acteon into a stag. On one level, they understood that these stories certainly weren’t meant to be taken literally, but on another level they believed that the stories held ultimate truth. Ways to understand their society, their own behavior, their relationship and duties to the gods. That’s something that fundamentalists in our own day have trouble grasping.”",
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