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title: "Inspiring Myth Quotations"
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> [I think Stephen Crane too becomes trapped in a myth that poetry should be operating at a certain level, that there's the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-a-martin/i-think-stephen-crane-too-becomes-trapped-in-a-myth-that-poetry/)

[Douglas A. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-a-martin/)

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> [Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-holland/postmodernists-believe-that-truth-is-myth-and-myth-truth-this/)

[Brad Holland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-holland/)

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> [2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-shapiro/2013-was-a-year-of-myths-falling-apart-the-myth-of-president-obama-a/)

[Ben Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-shapiro/)

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> [There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-r-tolkien-2/there-are-truths-that-are-beyond-us-transcendent-truths-about-beauty/)

[J. R. R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-r-tolkien-2/)

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> [Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rollo-may/our-thesis-is-that-symbols-and-myths-are-an-expression-of-man-s/)

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

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> [In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/in-the-native-literatures-of-north-america-there-aren-t-any-novels/)

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

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> [When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tupac-shakur/when-your-hero-falls-from-grace-all-fairy-tales-are-uncovered-myth/)

[Tupac Shakur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tupac-shakur/)

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> [Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-taymor/spider-man-is-a-genuine-american-myth-with-a-dark-primal-power-but-it/)

[Julie Taymor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-taymor/)

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> [“No follower of Christ knew the shape of the earth. For many centuries this great Peasant of Palestine has been worshiped as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/no-follower-of-christ-knew-the-shape-of-the-earth-for-many-centuries/)

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

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> [the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shulamith-firestone/the-myth-of-childhood-happiness-flourishes-so-wildly-not-because-it/)

[Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shulamith-firestone/)

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> [The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-hudson/the-myth-is-that-if-housing-prices-go-up-americans-will-be-richer/)

[Michael Hudson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-hudson/)

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> [For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/scott-berkun/for-centuries-before-google-mit-and-ideo-modern-hotbeds-of-innovation/)

[Scott Berkun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/scott-berkun/)

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> [Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephanie-coontz/extended-families-have-never-been-the-norm-in-america-the-highest/)

[Stephanie Coontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephanie-coontz/)

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> [“If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelli-jae-baeli/if-i-say-i-do-not-believe-in-faeries-or-elves-or-trolls-does-this/)

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

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> [Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrei-sakharov/intellectual-freedom-is-essential-freedom-to-obtain-and-distribute/)

[Andrei Sakharov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrei-sakharov/)

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> [Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/sellars-s-myth-of-jones-is-deployed-against-what-sellars-calls-the/)

[Ray Brassier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-brassier/)

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> [“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/a-novel-like-a-myth-or-any-great-work-of-art-can-become-an-initiation/)

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

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> [I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marlon-brando/i-have-decided-to-tell-the-story-of-my-life-as-best-i-can-so-that-my/)

[Marlon Brando](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marlon-brando/)

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> [“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/v-e-schwab/in-myths-the-hero-survives-the-evil-is-vanquished-the-world-is-set/)

[V.E. Schwab](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/v-e-schwab/)

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> [The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hofstadter/the-utopia-of-the-populists-was-in-the-past-not-in-the-future/)

[Richard Hofstadter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hofstadter/)

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> [I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marina-warner/i-have-always-argued-that-we-can-t-live-by-or-be-made-to-exist/)

[Marina Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marina-warner/)

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> [“In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-eldredge/in-the-case-of-our-fair-maiden-we-have-overlooked-two-very-crucial/)

[John Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-eldredge/)

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> [Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-de-lint/like-legend-and-myth-magic-fades-when-it-is-unused-hence-all-the-old/)

[Charles de Lint](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-de-lint/)

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> [All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-carson/all-myth-is-an-enriched-pattern-a-two-faced-proposition-allowing-its/)

[Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-carson/)

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> [The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/moby/the-world-is-too-big-and-too-intricate-to-conform-to-our-ideas-of/)

[Moby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/moby/)

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> [“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/in-the-specially-christian-case-we-have-to-react-against-the-heavy/)

[G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/)

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> [The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-most-dangerous-leadership-myth-is-that-leaders-are-born-that/)

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

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> [In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/in-many-college-english-courses-the-words-myth-and-symbol-are-given-a/)

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

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> [But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-robertson-smith/but-if-it-not-be-true-the-myth-itself-requires-to-be-explained-and/)

[William Robertson Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-robertson-smith/)

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> [Rid yourself of the old myth, if it has been plaguing you, that money is not important. It is important - vitally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/venita-vancaspel/rid-yourself-of-the-old-myth-if-it-has-been-plaguing-you-that-money/)

[Venita VanCaspel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/venita-vancaspel/)

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> [The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rose-macaulay/the-ascendancy-over-men-s-minds-of-the-ruins-of-the-stupendous-past/)

[Rose Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rose-macaulay/)

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> [Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/werner-herzog/well-it-had-to-be-about-the-stories-and-the-people-who-live-under-the/)

[Werner Herzog](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/werner-herzog/)

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> [You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-myss/you-are-far-more-than-your-personality-more-than-your-habits-more/)

[Caroline Myss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-myss/)

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> [Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/just-as-socrates-felt-that-it-was-necessary-to-create-a-tension-in/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [“We are condemned to be modern. We can’t escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-watson/we-are-condemned-to-be-modern-we-can-t-escape-the-facts-of-our/)

[David Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-watson/)

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> [... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/if-as-women-we-accept-a-philosophy-of-history-that-asserts-that-women/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [ Jesse \[James\] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brad-pitt/jesse-james-was-known-as-a-kind-of-robin-hood-character-and-also-it/)

[Brad Pitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brad-pitt/)

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> [Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/celia-green/physics-has-never-been-a-comfortable-subject-for-human-psychology-the/)

[Celia Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/celia-green/)

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> [I have traveled to Florida, I have traveled to Georgia, I have traveled to California, you and I both know that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luis-gutierrez/i-have-traveled-to-florida-i-have-traveled-to-georgia-i-have-traveled/)

[Luis Gutierrez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luis-gutierrez/)

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> [Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-klaus/global-warming-is-a-false-myth-and-every-serious-person-and-scientist/)

[Vaclav Klaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-klaus/)

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## Top authors on Myth

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                        "text": "When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls",
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                        "text": "Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power, but it's also got this great superhero, and - hey! - he can fly through the theater at 40 miles an hour. It's got villains, it's got skyscrapers, it's colorful, it's Manhattan. I knew it would be a challenge, but I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I couldn't resist.",
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                        "text": "“No follower of Christ knew the shape of the earth. For many centuries this great Peasant of Palestine has been worshiped as God. Millions and millions have given their lives to his service. The wealth of the world was lavished on his shrines. His name carried consolation to the diseased and dying. His name dispelled the darkness of death, and filled the dungeon with light. His name gave courage to the martyr, and in the midst of fire, with shriveling lips the sufferer uttered it again and again. The outcasts, the deserted, the fallen, felt that Christ was their friend, felt that he knew their sorrows and pitied their sufferings. All this is true, and if it were all, how beautiful, how touching, how glorious it would be. But it is not all. There is another side. In his name millions and millions of men and women have been imprisoned, tortured and killed. In his name millions and millions have been enslaved. In his name the thinkers, the investigators, have been branded as criminals, and his followers have shed the blood of the wisest and best. In his name the progress of many nations was stayed for a thousand years. In his gospel was found the dogma of eternal pain, and his words added an infinite horror to death. His gospel filled the world with hatred and revenge; made intellectual honesty a crime; made happiness here the road to hell, denounced love as base and bestial, canonized credulity, crowned bigotry and destroyed the liberty of man. It would have been far better had the New Testament never been written – far better had the theological Christ never lived. Had the writers of the Testament been regarded as uninspired, had Christ been thought of only as a man, had the good been accepted and the absurd, the impossible, and the revengeful thrown away, mankind would have escaped the wars, the tortures, the scaffolds, the dungeons, the agony and tears, the crimes and sorrows of a thousand years.”",
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                        "text": "the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.",
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                        "text": "The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve - really want is for new buyers to be able to borrow enough money to buy the houses from mortgage defaulters, and thus save the banks from suffering from more mortgage defaults.",
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                        "text": "For centuries before Google, MIT, and IDEO, modern hotbeds of innovation, we struggled to explain any kind of creation, from the universe itself to the multitudes of ideas around us. While we can make atomic bombs, and dry-clean silk ties, we still don't have satisfying answers for simple questions like: Where do songs come from? Are there an infinite variety of possible kinds of cheese? How did Shakespeare and Stephen King invent so much, while we're satisfied watching sitcom reruns? Our popular answers have been unconvincing, enabling misleading, fantasy-laden myths to grow strong.",
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                        "text": "“If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of beliefs and a lifestyle that adheres to this lack of belief? NO, IT ONLY IMPLIES that I do not believe in faeries, elves and trolls. So one cannot extrapolate morality, philosophy, cosmology, character, political party, or any other thing of that sort from the mere lack of belief in one other thing.”",
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                        "text": "Sellars's \"myth of Jones\" is deployed against what Sellars calls \"the myth of the categorial Given\": the idea that to be aware of something is to be aware of it as something. This short circuit between \"awareness of\" and \"awareness as\" inhibits the project of self-understanding because it perpetuates the assumption that there is a point where being and knowing coincide.",
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                        "text": "“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.”",
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                        "text": "“In myths, the hero survives. The evil is vanquished. The world is set right. Sometimes there are celebrations, and sometimes there are funerals. The dead are buried. The living move on. Nothing changes. Everything changes. This is a myth. This is not a myth. The”",
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                        "text": "The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.",
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                        "text": "I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and nation has, possibly unacknowledged to themselves, some myths by which they live. It remains important to revisit them, understand them and possibly retell them - or at least own up to them - and then it becomes possible to move something. If it's obscure or invisible to you, you can't budge those understandings.",
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                        "text": "“In the case of our fair maiden, we have overlooked two very crucial aspects to that myth. On the one hand, none of us ever really believed the sorcerer was real. We thought we could have the maiden without a fight. Honestly, most of us guys thought our biggest battle was asking her out. And second, we have not understood the tower and its relationship to her wound; the damsel is in distress. If masculinity has come under assault, femininity has been brutalized. Eve is the crown of creation, remember? She embodies the exquisite beauty and the exotic mystery of God in a way that nothing else in all creation even comes close to. And so she is the special target of the Evil One; he turns his most vicious malice against her. If he can destroy her or keep her captive, he can ruin the story.”",
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                        "text": "Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.",
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                        "text": "All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence the notion found early in ancient thought that all poets are liars. And from the true lies of poetry trickled out a question. What really connects words and things?",
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                        "text": "The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.",
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                        "text": "“In the specially Christian case we have to react against the heavy bias of fatigue. It is almost impossible to make the facts vivid, because the facts are familiar; and for fallen men it is often true that familiarity is fatigue. I am convinced that if we could tell the supernatural story of Christ word for word as of a Chinese hero, call him the Son of Heaven instead of the Son of God, and trace his rayed nimbus in the gold thread of Chinese embroideries or the gold lacquer of Chinese pottery, instead of in the gold leaf of our own old Catholic paintings, there would be a unanimous testimony to the spiritual purity of the story. We should hear nothing then of the injustice of substitution or the illogicality of atonement, of the superstitious exaggeration of the burden of sin or the impossible insolence of an invasion of the laws of nature. We should admire the chivalry of the Chinese conception of a god who fell from the sky to fight the dragons and save the wicked from being devoured by their own fault and folly. We should admire the subtlety of the Chinese view of life, which perceives that all human imperfection is in very truth a crying imperfection. We should admire the Chinese esoteric and superior wisdom, which said there are higher cosmic laws than the laws we know.”",
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                        "text": "The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.",
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                        "text": "In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.",
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                        "text": "But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.",
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