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Life's greatest nudge often stirs in forgotten corners where strangers transcend their paths, crafting remarkable narratives woven from simple moments.
Author:
Aurora Winters
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In every dust-laden corner of memory lies a world mirrored by silence, each byway shrouded in longing for words faded yet not outside of reach.
Author:
Lena Wildrose
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There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
Author:
Edward Zwick
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What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
Author:
Sarah Zettel
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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Author:
Thom Yorke
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy literature and other media. I hope we're succeeding in some small way.
Author:
Terri Windling
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Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Author:
Robert Wilson
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We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
Author:
George Weinberg
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Author:
Alan Watts
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The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.
Author:
Henry Wallace
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From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.
Author:
Claude Vorilhon
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Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
Author:
Joan Vinge
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It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
Author:
Robert Trout
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The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.
Author:
Robert Trout
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
Author:
Lars Trier
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The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
Author:
J. Straczynski
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Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
Author:
Norman Spinrad
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It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors.
Author:
Shannyn Sossamon
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But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
Author:
William Smith
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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.
Author:
Robert Smith
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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
Author:
Michael Shermer
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The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?
Author:
Dwight Schultz
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Author:
Arthur Schlesinger
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Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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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.
Author:
George Santayana
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It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving candy in a haphazard way around the house... and the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.
Author:
Todd Rundgren
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I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.
Author:
Jerry Rubin
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Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
Author:
Alfred Rosenberg
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One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth.
Author:
Smokey Robinson
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.
Author:
Paul Ricoeur
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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
Author:
Paul Ricoeur
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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Author:
Willard Quine
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
Author:
V. Pritchett
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Author:
Boris Pasternak
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
Author:
George Murray
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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
Author:
Paul McCartney
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In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Author:
Audre Lorde
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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.
Author:
David Lawrence
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There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
Author:
Wally Lamb
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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.
Author:
John Kennedy
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Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.
Author:
Steven Katz
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It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.
Author:
Bob Kane
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People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.
Author:
Milla Jovovich
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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.
Author:
Janis Joplin
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If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
Author:
Diana Jones
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Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
Author:
Robert Johnson
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In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.
Author:
Phillip Johnson
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I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
Author:
Jeffrey Hunter
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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
Author:
Brad Holland
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Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Author:
Dustin Hoffman
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As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
Author:
James Hillman
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Author:
Frank Herbert
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The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
Author:
Robert Heller
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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
Author:
W. Harriman
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What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
Author:
Tom Hanks
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Author:
Ursula Guin
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If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
Author:
Alma Guillermoprieto
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I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
Author:
Norman Granz
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Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
Author:
Al Goldstein
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Author:
Robert Fulghum
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From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.
Author:
Janet Frame
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
Author:
Warren Farrell
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I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
Author:
Jerry Falwell
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As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
Author:
James Ellroy
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It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
Author:
Irwin Edman
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Author:
Irwin Edman
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Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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The essence of absence within our constancy reveals the stories we leave untold - whispers dancing at the edge of consciousness.
Author:
Isadora Gale
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
Author:
E. Doctorow
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I am not a myth.
Author:
Marlene Dietrich
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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
Author:
William Devane
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
Author:
Stanley Crouch
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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
Author:
Barry Commoner
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Mythical consciousness flows like an underground river, coursing through chambers of ego as it strands the stones of reason with vibrant hues of imagination and hope.
Author:
Samira Plainsong
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Mythical consciousness ceaselessly evolves, drawing strength from the narratives of our past, breathing new life into barren minds as a Phoenix from literary ashes.
Author:
Elara Relative
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Even in the silenced logic of modern existence, the shimmering veil of mythical consciousness endures, weaving ancient wisdom into the tapestry of today's reality.
Author:
Marisol Alder
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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Mythical consciousness weaves stories from threads of struggles and dreams, reflecting humanity's unbreakable bond with the enigmas of possibility.
Author:
Avani Paranjpe
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Mythical consciousness endures not merely as fading stories but as living currents washing ashore into today's realities, inviting wonder while resonating with modern struggles.
Author:
Athena gwynziel
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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.
Author:
Albert Camus
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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
Author:
David Byrne
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It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.
Author:
Deborah Bull
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Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.
Author:
James Bovard
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I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.
Author:
John Boorman
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All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
Author:
John Boorman
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The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
Author:
Leo Bogart
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Author:
Stephen Bayley
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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Author:
Roland Barthes
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No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
Author:
Lester Bangs
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I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.
Author:
John Bacon
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It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
Author:
Jean Auel
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In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Author:
Brooks Atkinson
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Author:
Hannes Alfven
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
Author:
Hannes Alfven
