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Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no… — Ennio Flaiano
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind. — Mary Ritter Beard
Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for… — R C Sproul
Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest… — David Foster Wallace
Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. — Joseph Campbell
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… — Unknown Author
In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and… — Dan Barker
One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false accusation. Nevertheless, that… — George Soros
Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming… — George Soros
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather… — Bill Gates
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which… — Rudolf Bultmann
True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching… — Rose Macaulay
At Brandies I discovered Feminism. And I instantly became a convert... writing brilliant papers in my Myths of Patriarchy class, in which I likened my… — Heather Hart
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of… — Nelson Algren
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are… — Stanley Kunitz
We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts… — Natalie Goldberg
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… — William Galston
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get… — Christopher Dawson
Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to… — Michael Shermer
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about an old mystery:… — Roberto Calasso
Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in… — Alex Ferguson
Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit… — Jan Karon
Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort. — Robert D. Putnam
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the… — Rigoberta Menchu

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