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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients… — Bill Gates
Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in… — Joseph Campbell
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all… — Suzanne Farrell
It takes a very strong brain to resist the absolutes, the myths that the media and the politicians peddle - the idea that if you… — Peter Mullan
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not… — Joseph Campbell
The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper. — Robert Lipsyte
What they teach you as history is mythology and true mythology is far from fantasy -- it is our true history. A bulk of our… — Suzy Kassem
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts… — Henry David Thoreau
If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you… — David Foster Wallace
We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in… — Patrick Marber
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic,… — L. Frank Baum
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents… — August Wilson
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail… — Herbert J. Muller
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… — Isaac Asimov
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In… — Carl Jung
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners… — Greg Brown
Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported… — Mark Gatiss
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience. — Richard Le Gallienne
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring… — John Howe
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. — Kent McCord

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