#myths

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ↗

— Ansel Adams

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There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke. ↗

— Evel Knievel

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When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus. ↗

— George Saunders

#brady #bunch #family #greek #had

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant. ↗

— Michael Shermer

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But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#because #live #myths #our #preoccupation

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#prevent #progression #time #waste #waste of time

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#black #created #grew #myths #people

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#myths #prometheus #zeus #humor

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

— Rollo May

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