#myths

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

— Margaret Atwood

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Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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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

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It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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I don't care what people's myths are about me. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#care #i #me #myths #people

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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Myths which are believed in tend to become true. ↗

— George Orwell

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