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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be… — David Brin
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed. — Howard Mumford Jones
We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be… — Rigoberta Menchu
In a great number of the cosmogonic myths the world is said to have developed from a great water, which was the prime matter. In… — Svante Arrhenius
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people,… — James Taylor
The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things… — Brian Froud
True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use it to our… — Unknown Author
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths… — Marlon Brando
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise… — Camryn Manheim
I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs… — Andy Rooney
I think there are a lot of myths about MS, and it may have affected my career — Teri Garr
I don't care what people's myths are about me. — Kelly Lynch
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to… — Joseph Campbell
HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand book opens doors… — Jeff McBride
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… — Unknown Author
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of… — Jeremy Narby
There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is… — Unknown Author
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced,… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene. — Harold Bloom
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. — Carl Jung
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly… — Michael Moorcock
The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. — Clarence Thomas
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still… — Epicurus

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