“ When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge. ”
- Constantine Peter Cavafy- Copy
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“ We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. ”
- Betty Shaball- Copy
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“ Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
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“ One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. ”
- Mrs. Humphrey Ward- Copy
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“ The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness. ”
- John Maxwell- Copy
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“ If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- Copy
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“ Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology. ”
- Vince Lombardi- Copy
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“ All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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“ All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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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. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill? ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past. ”
- George Steiner- Copy
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“ Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops. ”
- Ron Peterson- Copy
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“ It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. ”
- Alfred Loisy- Copy
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“ These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts. ”
- Helen Lawrenson- Copy
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“ We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority… though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology… ”
- Ihab Hassan- Copy
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“ The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together… ”
- Ruth Hubbard- Copy
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“ My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought — with these I deal. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, — there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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