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" Quotes and Sayings About myth

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Universal Class New Call
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

About Considered Deaths Demeaning
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Destiny Each Enabling Help
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Attempt Blood Deep Description
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Based Concept Delinquent God
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Fiction Modern Modern Technology Myth
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Catholic Countries Ethic Good
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Easy Myth People Publishers
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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

America Die People Really
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That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle - beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.

Beautiful Bottle Childhood Died
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I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Believe Dragons Dreams Even
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Remember that cosmic fact and mental myth cannot occupy the same place at the same time, any more than two hands can occupy the same glove. So choose what is truly right for you.

Any Cannot Choose Cosmic
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.
Dreams Myths Private Public
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The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.

Being Boards Crew Discovery
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The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

Absolutely Community Dear Embraced
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Animate Before Chocolate Complex
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Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.

Always Apparent Background Front
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I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Believe Decline Even Literary
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

Be Original Being Believe Common
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Myths Prevent Progression Time
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Having a place means that you know what a place means...what it means in a storied sense of myth, character and presence but also in an ecological sense...Integrating native consciousness with mythic consciousness

Place Means Stored Myth
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Enemy Truth Lie Dishonest
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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

Stars Friend Legends Phantoms
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We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun. Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us.
Journey Home Halo Head
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No one has arrived. Leave me there as you would leave a myth with any person who sees you until he cries and rushes into himself, afraid of happiness.

Arrived Leave Person Cries
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Ancient Did Find Meaning
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On matters of health and Science, once the political leadership bends towards the pressures of mythical clerics, their superstitions and conspiracy theories, the ordinary man pays the price.

Health Science Political Pressure
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Disaster Failure Fiasco Mythic
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Between Difference Disaster Failure
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

India Ireland Laws Life
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Begin Criticism Must Myths
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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Any Earlier Form Internal
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If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Dream Dreams Grow GrowUp
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I like to call myself a mythmaker. I make myths for a living and people believe them.

Call myself Mythmaker Living Believe
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The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.

Attempt Baby Base Bath
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Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Endure Humans Live Myths
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Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

About Angry Anyone Dares
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Of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the world and its life; the fairy tale records the free and joyful

Race Untrammeled Rigid adherence Fact
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Awful Become Being Myth
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A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.

Existence Give Making Myth
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Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'

Am Answering Give Identity
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

Confession Lie Myth Neither
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Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.

Einstein Formula Image Knowledge
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Don't get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it's all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else's role.

American Else Everyone Get
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Because Black Feel Know
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Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

Whatever Think Business Tell
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Don’t go the low-price route. It’s myth that people want cheap products.

Low price Route Myth Cheap products
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Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.

Only thought Does violence Shatter myth
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