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title: "Inspiring Myth Wisdom"
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> [The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/the-need-for-mythic-statements-is-satisfied-when-we-frame-a-view-of/)

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

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> [While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/while-some-multimillionaires-started-in-poverty-most-did-not-a-study/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/that-famous-writer-s-block-is-a-myth-as-far-as-i-m-concerned-i-think/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ha-joon-chang/the-widely-accepted-assertion-that-only-if-you-let-markets-be-will/)

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

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> [The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-brooks/the-magic-of-myth-and-legend-has-come-true-in-our-time-one-types-the/)

[Fred Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-brooks/)

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> [What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-p-walters/what-really-drives-the-battle-against-law-enforcement-and-punishment/)

[John P. Walters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-p-walters/)

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> [A third myth is that men think that women like guys who are dangerous. As a result, guys will often smoke cigarettes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-miller/a-third-myth-is-that-men-think-that-women-like-guys-who-are-dangerous/)

[Dennis Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-miller/)

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> [What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-williams-jr/what-i-tried-to-show-is-that-this-idea-of-this-fundamental-conflict/)

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

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> [I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-percy/i-think-everyone-can-relate-to-the-werewolf-myth-because-we-ve-all-as/)

[Benjamin Percy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-percy/)

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> [“The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-wilson/the-loss-of-that-oral-tradition-and-the-breakdown-of-communication/)

[Diane Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-wilson/)

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> [“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-j-stenger/the-myth-of-quantum-consciousness-sits-well-with-many-whose-egos-have/)

[Victor J. Stenger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-j-stenger/)

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> [The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stella-young/the-sentiment-of-those-suggesting-the-olympics-and-paralympics-be/)

[Stella Young](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stella-young/)

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> [There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reginald-horace-blyth/there-is-a-hindu-myth-about-the-self-or-god-of-the-universe-who-sees-2/)

[Reginald Horace Blyth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reginald-horace-blyth/)

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> [Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth… A mother's love isn't cliché,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/some-tropes-are-universal-boy-meets-girl-betrayal-and-revenge-the/)

[Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/)

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> [Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allan-bloom/various-kinds-of-self-forgetting-usually-accompanied-by-illusions-and/)

[Allan Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allan-bloom/)

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> [Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/life-knows-us-not-and-we-do-not-know-life-we-don-t-know-even-our-own/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

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> [Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-de-casseres/everything-is-grounded-in-mystery-everything-is-swimming-and-the-2/)

[Benjamin De Casseres](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-de-casseres/)

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> [We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-asimov/we-mythologists-know-very-well-that-myths-and-legends-contain/)

[Isaac Asimov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-asimov/)

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> [Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/mythology-is-composed-by-poets-out-of-their-insights-and-realizations/)

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

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> [Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/very-well-then-where-do-we-arrive-where-do-we-arrive-with-our-respect/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as (play). But since the Self…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reginald-horace-blyth/there-is-a-hindu-myth-about-the-self-or-god-of-the-universe-who-sees/)

[Reginald Horace Blyth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reginald-horace-blyth/)

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> [“You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-claim-that-the-evidentiary-miracle-is-present-and-available/)

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

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> [Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clifford-a-pickover/today-we-know-that-time-travel-need-not-be-confined-to-myths-science/)

[Clifford A. Pickover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clifford-a-pickover/)

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> [Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/epicurus/men-believing-in-myths-will-always-fear-something-terrible/)

[Epicurus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/epicurus/)

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> [The subjects in my work appear as unidentified ghosts that can't be said to be of this world. I've decided to call…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hyon-gyon/the-subjects-in-my-work-appear-as-unidentified-ghosts-that-can-t-be/)

[Hyon Gyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hyon-gyon/)

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> [ \[Kafka\] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/kafka-transformed-the-profoundly-antipoetic-material-of-a-highly/)

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

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> [The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-watts/the-myths-underlying-our-culture-and-underlying-our-common-sense-have/)

[Alan Watts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-watts/)

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> [I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jada-pinkett-smith/i-feel-a-real-responsibility-to-my-community-and-so-right-now-there/)

[Jada Pinkett Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jada-pinkett-smith/)

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> [Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luca-cordero-di-montezemolo/sonia-gandhi-and-her-husband-have-always-been-persons-i-look-at-with/)

[Luca Cordero di Montezemolo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luca-cordero-di-montezemolo/)

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> [“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-campbell/i-would-say-that-all-our-sciences-are-the-material-that-has-to-be/)

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

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> [“The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simona-panova/the-unknown-grayish-mystifying-forest-was-benumbed-into-frost-covered/)

[Simona Panova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simona-panova/)

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> [As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-rushkoff/as-popular-culture-becomes-more-presentist-we-move-away-from/)

[Douglas Rushkoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-rushkoff/)

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> [“Camels can go many weeks without drinking anything at all. The notion that they cache water in their humps is pure myth—their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-benanav/camels-can-go-many-weeks-without-drinking-anything-at-all-the-notion/)

[Michael Benanav](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-benanav/)

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> [“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neel-burton/ultimately-loneliness-is-not-the-experience-of-lacking-but-the/)

[Neel Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neel-burton/)

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> [“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-meade/at-critical-moments-in-the-life-of-individuals-and-of-societies-it-is/)

[Michael Meade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-meade/)

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> [Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hunter-s-thompson/myths-and-legends-die-hard-in-america-we-love-them-for-the-extra/)

[Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hunter-s-thompson/)

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> [ “\[When asked about his thoughts on gods\] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eddie-vedder/when-asked-about-his-thoughts-on-gods-i-think-it-s-like-a-movie-that/)

[Eddie Vedder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eddie-vedder/)

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> [All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/all-that-remains-is-a-fate-whose-outcome-alone-is-fatal-outside-of-2/)

[Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/)

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> [Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/under-the-desert-sun-in-the-dogmatic-clarity-the-fables-of-theology/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ursula-k-le-guin/we-of-es-toch-tell-a-little-myth-which-says-that-in-the-beginning-the/)

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

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                        "text": "That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.",
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                        "text": "The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.",
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                        "text": "What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are imprisoning too many people for merely possessing illegal drugs; second, drug and other criminal sentences are too long and harsh, and third, the criminal justice system is unjustly punishing young black men. These are among the great urban myths of our time.",
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                        "text": "What I tried to show is that this idea of this fundamental conflict between savagery and civilization goes back to the very beginnings of Western history. I go back to the Greeks, I go back to the Romans. You can read Homer. And of course Homer has his great heroes involved in this myth, this wonderful mythic contest with savage tribal peoples, half-human monsters on distant parts of the world.",
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                        "text": "I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.",
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                        "text": "“The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place science perceives for humanity, as modern instruments probe the farthest reaches of space and time. ... quantum consciousness has about as much substance as the aether from which it is composed. Early in this century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s relativity destroyed the notion of a holistic universe that had seemed within the realm of possibility in the century just past. First, Einstein did away with the aether, shattering the doctrine that we all move about inside a universal, cosmic fluid whose excitations connect us simultaneously to one another and to the rest of the universe. Second, Einstein and other physicists proved that matter and light were composed of particles, wiping away the notion of universal continuity. Atomic theory and quantum mechanics demonstrated that everything, even space and time, exists in discrete bits – quanta. To turn this around and say that twentieth century physics initiated some new holistic view of the universe is a complete misrepresentation of what actually took place. ... The myth of quantum consciousness should take its place along with gods, unicorns, and dragons as yet another product of the fantasies of people unwilling to accept what science, reason, and their own eyes tell them about the world.”",
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                        "text": "The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.",
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                        "text": "There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there is and thus has no one separate to play with, he plays the cosmic game of hide-and-seek with himself. He takes on the roles and masks of individual people such as you and I and thus becomes involved in exciting and terrifying adventures, all the time forgetting who he really is.",
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                        "text": "We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.",
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                        "text": "Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!",
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                        "text": "There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as (play). But since the Self is what there is and all there is and thus has no one separate to play with, he plays the cosmic game of hide-and-seek with himself... all the time forgetting who he really is. Eventually however the Self awakens from his many dreams and fantasies and remembers his true identity, the one eternal Self of the Cosmos who is never born and never dies.",
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                        "text": "“You claim that the evidentiary miracle is present and available, namely, the Koran. You say: 'Whoever denies it, let him produce a similar one.' Indeed, we shall produce a thousand similar, from the works of rhetoricians, eloquent speakers and valiant poets, which are more appropriately phrased and state the issues more succinctly. They convey the meaning better and their rhymed prose is in better meter. … By God what you say astonishes us! You are talking about a work which recounts ancient myths, and which at the same time is full of contradictions and does not contain any useful information or explanation. Then you say: 'Produce something like it'‽”",
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                        "text": "Today, we know that time travel need not be confined to myths, science fiction, Hollywood movies, or even speculation by theoretical physicists. Time travel is possible. For example, an object traveling at high speeds ages more slowly than a stationary object. This means that if you were to travel into outer space and return, moving close to light speed, you could travel thousands of years into the Earth's future.",
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                        "text": "Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.",
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                        "text": "The subjects in my work appear as unidentified ghosts that can't be said to be of this world. I've decided to call them incarnations. In various religions, myths, and legends, the word \"incarnation\" refers to the birth or emergence of transcendent beings in the form of humans or other bodies. If \"incarnation\" denotes the appearance of an abstract being in some concrete form, in a gut ceremony, a shaman could be considered an incarnation of our desires, hopes, and sorrows. The incarnations that appear in my work are always new and I meet them for the first time by drawing them.",
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                        "text": "[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.",
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                        "text": "The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.",
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                        "text": "I feel a real responsibility to my community and so right now there has been this bizarre myth in our community how our vote doesn't count. I'm trying to get out there and re-educate on how the government works and break that myth and talk about the importance of being involved.",
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                        "text": "Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the reasons we look at India with a lot of sympathy and enthusiasm is Sonia Gandhi. Now she is Indian, not Italian, but she will always represent a myth for Italians.",
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                        "text": "“I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD.”",
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                        "text": "“[When asked about his thoughts on gods] I think it's like a movie that was way too popular. It's a story that's been told too many times and just doesn't mean anything. Man lived on the planet — [placing his fingers an inch apart], this is 5000 years of semi-recorded history. And God and the Bible, that came in somewhere around the middle, maybe 2000. This is the last 2000, this is what we're about to celebrate [indicating about an 1/8th of an inch with his fingers]. Now, humans, in some shape or form, have been on the earth for three million years [pointing across the room to indicate the distance]. So, all this time, from there [gesturing toward the other side of the room], to here [indicating the 1/8th of an inch], there was no God, there was no story, there was no myth and people lived on this planet and they wandered and they gathered and they did all these things. The planet was never threatened. How did they survive for all this time without this belief in God? I'd like to ask this to someone who knows about Christianity and maybe you do. That just seems funny to me.”",
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