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title: "Inspiring Myth Thoughts"
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> [I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-crowe/i-never-looked-at-noah-as-an-animal-collector-i-always-thought-of-him/)

[Russell Crowe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-crowe/)

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> [What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-serge/what-with-the-political-monopoly-the-cheka-and-the-red-army-all-that/)

[Victor Serge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-serge/)

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> [“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ana-claudia-antunes/i-remember-when-elvis-died-i-wrote-my-sentiments-with-words-of-a/)

[Ana Claudia Antunes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ana-claudia-antunes/)

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> [Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-alexander-essbaum/sometimes-some-of-us-in-some-things-we-do-know-better-when-we-know/)

[Jill Alexander Essbaum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-alexander-essbaum/)

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> [“First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-johnson/first-we-must-learn-to-think-mythologically-powerful-things-happen/)

[Robert A. Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-johnson/)

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> [The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-freire/the-object-of-a-dialogical-liberterian-action-is-not-to-dislodge-the/)

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

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> [That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-b-rubin/that-myth-that-image-of-the-madonna-mother-has-disabled-us-from/)

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

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> [A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-pagels/a-good-simulation-be-it-a-religious-myth-or-scientific-theory-gives/)

[Heinz Pagels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-pagels/)

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> [I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-spielberg/i-ve-just-always-had-a-personal-fascination-with-the-myth-of-abraham/)

[Steven Spielberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-spielberg/)

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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/)

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

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> [Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/phil-mcgraw/willpower-is-a-myth-the-problem-with-trying-to-use-willpower-to/)

[Phil McGraw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/phil-mcgraw/)

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> [I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-kushner/i-love-to-be-alone-i-find-it-necessary-but-i-don-t-know-if-that-s/)

[Rachel Kushner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-kushner/)

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> [A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/a-ritual-is-the-enactment-of-a-myth-and-by-participating-in-the-2/)

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

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> [The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-wolf/the-surgeons-are-playing-on-the-myth-s-double-standard-for-the/)

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

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> [There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michel-foucault/there-is-a-sort-of-myth-of-history-that-philosophers-have-history-for/)

[Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michel-foucault/)

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> [Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephenie-meyer/here-in-the-trees-it-was-much-easier-to-believe-the-absurdities-that-2/)

[Stephenie Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephenie-meyer/)

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> [The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-keniston/the-myth-of-the-self-sufficient-individual-and-of-the-self-sufficient/)

[Kenneth Keniston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-keniston/)

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> [“The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/the-faculty-for-myth-is-innate-in-the-human-race-it-seizes-with/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

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> [“The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical value: the essence of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/the-two-things-that-came-out-clearly-were-the-sense-of-reality-in-the/)

[C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/)

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> [Crack in the early 1980s or mid 1980s I'm sorry is that one of the worst myth is that one hit and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-hart/crack-in-the-early-1980s-or-mid-1980s-i-m-sorry-is-that-one-of-the/)

[Carl Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-hart/)

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> [Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hooman-majd/nima-shirazi-s-is-an-important-progressive-voice-in-the-iran-debate/)

[Hooman Majd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hooman-majd/)

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> [If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rainer-maria-rilke/if-we-only-arrange-our-life-in-accordance-with-the-principle-which/)

[Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rainer-maria-rilke/)

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> [That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-taylor-fleming/that-of-course-was-the-thing-about-the-fifties-with-all-their-patina/)

[Anne Taylor Fleming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-taylor-fleming/)

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> [The unfolding through time of all things from one is the simple message, finally, of every one of the creation myths reproduced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/the-unfolding-through-time-of-all-things-from-one-is-the-simple/)

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

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> [What this ideology, what this myth about savagery did was really excuse America for the disappearance of the Indian. It wasn't our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-williams-jr/what-this-ideology-what-this-myth-about-savagery-did-was-really/)

[Robert A. Williams, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-williams-jr/)

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> [“The three decades following the Second World War were prolific breeders of myth. The two great military victories on opposite sides of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-t-patterson/the-three-decades-following-the-second-world-war-were-prolific/)

[James T. Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-t-patterson/)

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> [“Oh, you mean like Orpheo rescuing Euniphon from the Underworld?” said Roland. Rob Anybody just stared. “It’s a myth from Ephebe,” Roland…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-pratchett/oh-you-mean-like-orpheo-rescuing-euniphon-from-the-underworld-said/)

[Terry Pratchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-pratchett/)

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> [The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/the-great-enemy-of-truth-is-very-often-not-the-lie-deliberate-2/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/now-the-story-of-christ-is-simply-a-true-myth-a-myth-working-on-us/)

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

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> [Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-rosenberg/not-in-the-name-of-a-necessary-protection-of-the-white-race-did-the/)

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

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> [I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judy-chicago/i-believe-in-art-that-is-connected-to-real-human-feeling-that-extends/)

[Judy Chicago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judy-chicago/)

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> [I don't think I'm a risk-taker. I don't think any entrepreneur is. I think that's one of those myths of commerce. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anita-roddick/i-don-t-think-i-m-a-risk-taker-i-don-t-think-any-entrepreneur-is-i/)

[Anita Roddick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anita-roddick/)

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> [We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/we-have-deluded-ourselves-into-believing-the-myth-that-capitalism/)

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

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> [Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-thompson/eugenics-was-central-to-the-entire-nazi-enterprise-joined-with/)

[Alison Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-thompson/)

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> [“And that’s the terrible myth of organized society. That everything that’s done through the established system is legal. And that word has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-m-kunstler/and-that-s-the-terrible-myth-of-organized-society-that-everything/)

[William M. Kunstler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-m-kunstler/)

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> [“This kind of event is so rare as to be the stuff of myth. Modern science has never managed to verify that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christa-faust/this-kind-of-event-is-so-rare-as-to-be-the-stuff-of-myth-modern/)

[Christa Faust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christa-faust/)

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> [The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-owen/the-young-soldier-it-is-not-death-without-hereafter-to-one-in-dearth/)

[Wilfred Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-owen/)

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> [“enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from...from manifesting, as such. And billions don't believe He existed at all.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomm-quackenbush/enough-people-disagree-with-what-jesus-is-to-prevent-him-from-from/)

[Thomm Quackenbush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomm-quackenbush/)

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> [ He\[Napoleon\] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hobsbawm/he-napoleon-had-destroyed-only-one-thing-the-jacobin-revolution-the/)

[Eric Hobsbawm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hobsbawm/)

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> [Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendy-kaminer/religions-of-course-have-their-own-demanding-intellectual-traditions/)

[Wendy Kaminer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendy-kaminer/)

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## Top authors on Myth

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                        "text": "I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one \"hero\" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.",
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                        "text": "What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction.",
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                        "text": "“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, \"Many people wanted to see his body. They literally wanted to dig his bones out just to make sure that he was being buried. And I could not understand why. Why people could not leave him alone and let his soul rest in peace.\" I couldn't get it. I didn't grasp it at that time. In a head of a little girl it was hard to believe that there were mysteries to be solved. That there ruled a conspiracy theory that people thought it was odd that he was buried and the casket was never opened. They didn't believe he was dead! Oh yes. Elvis Lives! And as the world needs his songs, his words, his thoughts, his love, his light more than ever before.”",
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                        "text": "Sometimes, some of us in some things we do know better. When we know better, I think it's imperative that we do better. Otherwise we're perpetuating myths that have for centuries done us no good. Men and women alike. No one is exempt from being called into consciousness.",
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                        "text": "“First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own dreams bring to us. The terms and settings of the old myths are strange; they seem archaic and distant to us, but if we listen to them carefully and take them seriously, we begin to hear and to understand.”",
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                        "text": "The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality.\" \"In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.",
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                        "text": "That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence--the desire to do something for themselves.",
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                        "text": "A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.",
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                        "text": "I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.",
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                        "text": "I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.",
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                        "text": "Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down -- and they will -- even your best-laid plans will fall flat.",
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                        "text": "I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's an essential ingredient to making, to art. Certainly on a practical level it is. But on the other hand, I think it's a myth that the creative inspiration is locked up inside the person and just needs a quiet space and the right \"serious\" brooding moment to get released.",
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                        "text": "A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.",
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                        "text": "The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking \"beautiful.\" If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.",
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                        "text": "There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have… History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.",
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                        "text": "Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.",
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                        "text": "Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.",
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                        "text": "The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.",
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