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• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Men, Ideas

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• I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Believe, Democracy, Republican

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.319, Pan Macmillan

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• From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

  Leon Trotsky

  Patriotic, Reality, People

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.764, Haymarket Books

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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.

  Paul Tsongas

  Lying, Worry, Promise

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• I am attracted to myths.

  Tina Turner

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• All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

  Gabrielle Union

  Cancer, Thinking, Skins

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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.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Naked, Body, Tradition

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• The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people.

  Henry A. Wallace

  People, Efficiency, Fascists

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• A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

  Alan Watts

  Trying, World, Term

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

  Alan Watts

  Taught Us, Common Sense, Culture

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• Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Endure, Humans

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Truth, People, Dare

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• I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

  Tom Wolfe

  Thinking, Greek, Age

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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.

  Thom Yorke

  Believe, Years, Grew Up

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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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.

  Sarah Zettel

  Science, Technology, Understanding

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• Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

  Julian Baggini

  Rip, Eye, Thinking

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Desire, Committed

  "After All of the Celebrity Divorces, Do You Still Have Faith in Marriage?" by Sarah Wildman, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.

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• As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Moving, Playing Games, Role Playing

  "Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos' end works but Lost's doesn't". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. March 22, 2013.

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• A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Lying, Adrenaline, Strands

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• Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Mythology, Has Beens, Indian

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• Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

  Bertrand Russell

  Math, Science, Air

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

  Dean Koontz

  Hero, Sacrifice, Self

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.607, Bantam

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• When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Loses, Universe

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• The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Enemy, Comfort

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

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