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title: "Inspiring Myth Quotes"
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> [The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/the-claim-that-myth-is-always-a-narrative-spin-off-of-ritual-the/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

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> [A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeline-miller/a-part-of-what-makes-myths-live-is-their-multiplicity-the-way/)

[Madeline Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeline-miller/)

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> [Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gena-showalter/aren-t-all-fairy-tales-based-in-fact-you-yourself-are-supposed-to-be/)

[Gena Showalter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gena-showalter/)

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> [We can certainly see contemporary examples of people who radically change. As long you believe your spouse will never change and you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-chapman/we-can-certainly-see-contemporary-examples-of-people-who-radically/)

[Gary Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-chapman/)

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> [Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-gove/why-do-the-myths-of-america-the-hateful-take-such-powerful-hold/)

[Michael Gove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-gove/)

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> [D.H. Lawrence says that myths are "inexhaustible" because they are symbols of heart mysteries. That is, they can't be exhausted - they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-orr/d-h-lawrence-says-that-myths-are-inexhaustible-because-they-are/)

[Gregory Orr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-orr/)

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> [In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yi-fu-tuan/in-a-sense-every-human-construction-whether-mental-or-material-is-a/)

[Yi-Fu Tuan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yi-fu-tuan/)

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> [ I think another \[myth\] is that some marriages are just hopeless. This is a common thing I hear from people, "Well, I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-chapman/i-think-another-myth-is-that-some-marriages-are-just-hopeless-this-is/)

[Gary Chapman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-chapman/)

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> [To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/to-some-extent-mythology-is-only-the-most-ancient-history-and/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-herbert/this-myth-he-d-made-out-of-intricate-movements-and-imagination-out-of/)

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

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> [The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-goodman/the-great-myth-of-our-work-intense-era-is-quality-time-we-believe-we/)

[Ellen Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-goodman/)

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> [Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-m-pirsig/dialectic-which-is-the-parent-of-logic-came-itself-from-rhetoric/)

[Robert M. Pirsig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-m-pirsig/)

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> [“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ovid/when-he-whoever-of-the-gods-it-was-had-thus-arranged-in-order-and/)

[Ovid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ovid/)

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> [Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ha-joon-chang/basically-the-myth-is-that-america-has-been-founded-on-the-free/)

[Ha-Joon Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ha-joon-chang/)

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> [The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-galston/the-truth-about-leo-strauss-is-the-most-balanced-and-insightful-book/)

[William Galston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-galston/)

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> [How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-b-rubin/how-then-can-we-account-for-the-persistence-of-the-myth-that-inside/)

[Lillian B. Rubin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-b-rubin/)

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> [If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-collins/if-i-have-to-pick-one-story-that-most-influenced-the-hunger-games-it/)

[Suzanne Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-collins/)

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> [Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/important-thing-about-myth-is-that-it-s-not-just-something-that-you/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terri-windling/contemporary-writers-use-animal-transformation-themes-to-explore/)

[Terri Windling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terri-windling/)

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> [I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-keen/i-think-we-re-always-in-the-process-of-writing-and-rewriting-the/)

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

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> [Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/rationalism-belongs-to-the-cool-observer-but-because-of-the-stupidity/)

[Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/)

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> [We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-may/we-have-this-idea-that-everyone-should-be-totally-independent-totally/)

[Gerald May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-may/)

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> [Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-moorcock/arthuriana-has-become-a-genre-in-itself-more-like-tv-soap-opera-where/)

[Michael Moorcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-moorcock/)

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> [Every time I open Facebook, I see a post with something like, "We must forgive or be prisoners of our own bitterness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-lerner/every-time-i-open-facebook-i-see-a-post-with-something-like-we-must/)

[Harriet Lerner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-lerner/)

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> [The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/the-collective-unconscious-appears-to-consist-of-mythological-motifs/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-piketty/contrary-to-a-tenacious-myth-france-is-not-owned-by-california/)

[Thomas Piketty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-piketty/)

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> [I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-ann-dawson/i-ve-always-said-writer-s-block-is-a-myth-there-is-no-such-thing-as/)

[Julie Ann Dawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-ann-dawson/)

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> [“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shatrujeet-nath/there-is-child-in-all-of-us-that-refuses-to-grow-up-a-child-that-is/)

[Shatrujeet Nath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shatrujeet-nath/)

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> [Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-rosenberg/today-a-new-faith-is-awakening-the-myth-of-the-blood-the-belief-that/)

[Alfred Rosenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-rosenberg/)

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> [Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikola-tesla/ere-many-generations-pass-our-machinery-will-be-driven-by-a-power-3/)

[Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikola-tesla/)

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> [The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-rothko/the-myth-holds-us-therefore-not-through-its-romantic-flavor-not-the/)

[Mark Rothko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-rothko/)

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> [Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-harris/nonbelievers-like-myself-stand-beside-you-dumbstruck-by-the-muslim/)

[Sam Harris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-harris/)

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> [“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-green-ingersoll/this-century-will-be-called-darwin-s-century-he-was-one-of-the/)

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

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> [We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-frederick-nims/we-still-like-to-make-up-stories-just-as-our-ancestors-did-which-use/)

[John Frederick Nims](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-frederick-nims/)

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> [You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beyonce-knowles/you-know-equality-is-a-myth-and-for-some-reason-everyone-accepts-the/)

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

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> [I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lennon/i-d-never-met-a-woman-i-considered-as-intelligent-as-me-that-sounds/)

[John Lennon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lennon/)

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> [I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashwin-sanghi/i-believe-that-patterns-tend-to-repeat-themselves-and-there-are-2/)

[Ashwin Sanghi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashwin-sanghi/)

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> [Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/capitalism-s-grow-or-die-imperative-stands-radically-at-odds-with/)

[Ursula K. Le Guin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ursula-k-le-guin/)

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> [Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/heroes-are-necessary-in-order-to-enable-the-citizens-to-find-their/)

[Rollo May](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rollo-may/)

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> [Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: "There is no more opportunity in this world." Most people held…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernie-j-zelinski/here-is-a-myth-for-you-if-myths-are-your-pleasure-there-is-no-more/)

[Ernie J Zelinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernie-j-zelinski/)

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                        "text": "Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes beyond logic and reaches deep into the darker recesses of the European soul. In centuries past those on the Left who wished to personalise their hatred of capitalism, who sought to make it emotionally resonant by fastening an envious political passion on to a blameless scapegoat people, embraced anti-Semitism. It was the socialism of fools. Which is what anti-Americanism is now.",
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                        "text": "In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in constant chaos. Thus children's fairy tales as well as adult's legends, cosmological myths, and indeed philosophical systems are shelters built by the mind in which human beings can rest, at least temporarily, from the siege of inchoate experience and of doubt.",
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                        "text": "I think another [myth] is that some marriages are just hopeless. This is a common thing I hear from people, \"Well, I just think there are some marriages that are hopeless, Dr. Chapman, don't you agree with that?\" I say I understand the feeling, but the fact is that there are no marriages that are hopeless.",
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                        "text": "To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense,it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.",
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                        "text": "“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs - what had it come to at last? When the waves receded, the shores of Time would spread out there clean, empty, shining with infinite grains of memory and little else.”",
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                        "text": "The great myth of our work-intense era is 'quality time.' We believe we can make up for the loss of days or hours, especially with each other, by concentrated minutes. But ultimately there is no way to do one-minute mothering. There is no way to pay attention in a hurry.",
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                        "text": "Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece. That is so historically, and that is so by any application of common sense. The poetry and myths are the response of a prehistoric people to the Universe around them made on the basis of Quality. It is Quality, not dialectic, which is the generator of everything we know.",
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                        "text": "“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.”",
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                        "text": "Basically, the myth is that America has been founded on the free market; the government has done very little; it has thrived under free trade. But actually, if you look at the history, this is actually the country that has succeeded most with protectionist policies.",
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                        "text": "The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.",
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                        "text": "How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?",
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                        "text": "If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.",
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                        "text": "Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.",
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                        "text": "“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done, all over the world, for many centuries past. One distinct change marks modern retellings, however, reflecting our changed relationship to animals and nature. In a society in which most of us will never encounter true danger in the woods, the big white bear who comes knocking at the door [in fairy tales] is not such a frightening prospective husband now; instead, he's exotic, almost appealing. Whereas once wilderness was threatening to civilization, now it's been tamed and cultivated; the dangers of the animal world have a nostalgic quality, removed as they are from our daily existence. This removal gives \"the wild\" a different kind of power; it's something we long for rather than fear. The shape-shifter, the were-creature, the stag-headed god from the heart of the woods--they come from a place we'd almost forgotten: the untracked forests of the past; the primeval forests of the mythic imagination; the forests of our childhood fantasies: untouched, unspoiled, limitless. Likewise, tales of Animal Brides and Bridegrooms are steeped in an ancient magic and yet powerfully relevant to our lives today. They remind us of the wild within us...and also within our lovers and spouses, the part of them we can never quite know. They represent the Others who live beside us--cat and mouse and coyote and owl--and the Others who live only in the dreams and nightmares of our imaginations. For thousands of years, their tales have emerged from the place where we draw the boundary lines between animals and human beings, the natural world and civilization, women and men, magic and illusion, fiction and the lives we live.”",
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                        "text": "I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves.",
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                        "text": "Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.",
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                        "text": "We have this idea that everyone should be totally independent, totally whole, totally together spiritually, totally fulfilled. That is a myth. In reality, our lack of fulfillment is the most precious gift we have. It is the source of our passion, our creativity, our search for God. All the best of life comes out of our human yearning, our not being satisfied.",
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                        "text": "Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.",
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                        "text": "Every time I open Facebook, I see a post with something like, \"We must forgive or be prisoners of our own bitterness and hate.\" People think that forgiveness is all-or-nothing, but this myth hurts people. You can forgive 10, 97, or 14 percent. Forgiveness is complicated.",
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                        "text": "The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.",
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                        "text": "Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.",
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                        "text": "I've always said \"Writer's Block\" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something.",
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                        "text": "“There is child in all of us that refuses to grow up, a child that is in awe of what can be, the polar opposite of the cynic in all of us who despairs over what is. Stories of magic, fantastic monsters, impossible courage and spectacular heroism appeal to this child, instilling it with hope and faith in humanity and in the cosmic order.”",
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                        "text": "Today a new faith is awakening — the Myth of the blood; the belief that to defend the blood is also to defend the divine nature of man in general. It is a belief, effulgent with the brightest knowledge, that Nordic blood represents that Mysterium which has overcome and replaced the older sacraments.",
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                        "text": "Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel...We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians...throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static, or kinetic? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheel work of nature.",
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                        "text": "The myth holds us, therefore, not through its romantic flavor, not the remembrance of beauty of some bygone age, not through the possibilities of fantasy, but because it expresses to us something real and existing in ourselves, as it was to those who first stumbled upon the symbols to give them life.",
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                        "text": "Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we stand dumbstruck by you as well--by your denial of tangible reality, by the suffering you create in service to your religious myths, and by your attachment to an imaginary God.",
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                        "text": "“This century will be called Darwin 's century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write the name of Charles Darwin on the one hand and the name of every theologian who ever lived on the other, and from that name has come more light to the world than from all of those. His doctrine of evolution, his doctrine of the survival of the fittest, his doctrine of the origin of species, has removed in every thinking mind the last vestige of orthodox Christianity. He has not only stated, but he has demonstrated, that the inspired writer knew nothing of this world, nothing of the origin of man, nothing of geology, nothing of astronomy, nothing of nature; that the Bible is a book written by ignorance--at the instigation of fear. Think of the men who replied to him. Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin , and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task. He was held up to the ridicule, the scorn and contempt of the Christian world, and yet when he died, England was proud to put his dust with that of her noblest and her grandest. Charles Darwin conquered the intellectual world, and his doctrines are now accepted facts. His light has broken in on some of the clergy, and the greatest man who to-day occupies the pulpit of one of the orthodox churches, Henry Ward Beecher, is a believer in the theories of Charles Darwin --a man of more genius than all the clergy of that entire church put together. ...The church teaches that man was created perfect, and that for six thousand years he has degenerated. Darwin demonstrated the falsity of this dogma. He shows that man has for thousands of ages steadily advanced; that the Garden of Eden is an ignorant myth; that the doctrine of original sin has no foundation in fact; that the atonement is an absurdity; that the serpent did not tempt, and that man did not 'fall.' Charles Darwin destroyed the foundation of orthodox Christianity. There is nothing left but faith in what we know could not and did not happen. Religion and science are enemies. One is a superstition; the other is a fact. One rests upon the false, the other upon the true. One is the result of fear and faith, the other of investigation and reason.”",
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                        "text": "We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones.",
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                        "text": "You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.",
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                        "text": "Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.",
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                        "text": "Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes, our aspirations, our ideals, our beliefs. In the deepest sense the hero is created by us; he or she is born collectively as our own myth. This is what makes heroism so important: it reflects our own sense of identity and from this our own heroism is molded.",
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                        "text": "Here is a myth for you if myths are your pleasure: \"There is no more opportunity in this world.\" Most people held this false belief fifty years ago, the majority agreed with it five years ago, and practically everyone clings to it today. Clearly, this myth will also be the screaming rage in the future. Hang on to this myth, and you are destined to miss great opportunities for the rest of your life.",
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