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• There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.

  Mizuko Ito

  Kids, Skills, People

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• The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Real, People, Evil

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• A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

  Kenneth Anger

  Mirrors, Views, Jeans

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• I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there is always something about the character of Batman that is very elemental. There is a great powerful myth to the character and romantic element that draws from a lot of literary sources

  Christopher Nolan

  Powerful, Book, Character

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• To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

  Roy Basler

  History, Realizing, Inevitable

  Roy Prentice Basler (1973). “A Touchstone for Greatness: Essays, Addresses, and Occasional Pieces about Abraham Lincoln”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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• I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

  Harold Bloom

  Believe, Aggravation, Progress

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• A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

  David Antin

  Lying, Men, White

  David Antin (1976). “Talking at the boundaries”, W W Norton & Co Inc

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• We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

  Robert Coover

  Needs, Stories, Randomness

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• Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

  Edward Abbey

  Different, World, Aspect

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Needs, Mythology

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• I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have . . . that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them.

  William Cohen

  Fighting, Helping Others, People

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• By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

  Michael Moorcock

  Mean, Mad, Legends

  Michael Moorcock (2016). “Mother London”, p.274, Hachette UK

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• I have to say that the traditional role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking, Mexican, Roles

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

  Clarence Thomas

  People, Black, Way

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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.

  Lars von Trier

  Important, Example, Bowie

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• If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Past, Darkness, Lasts

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.15, Arktos

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• It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, Media, People

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• It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still gives some credence to myths. So without the study of nature there is no enjoyment of pure pleasure.

  Epicurus

  Giving, Important, Matter

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• I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had been a Norse mythology fan since I was a kid and was thrilled to discover a comic that was kind of based on Norse mythology-there's not a one-to-one correspondence, but there's no reason there should be. I was delighted to find it, and I didn't care that it wasn't exactly the myth. For one thing, Thor didn't have red hair in the comics. I was fine with that.

  Walt Simonson

  Kids, College, Hair

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• Stupidity has made enormous progress. It's a sun so shining that we can no longer look at it directly. Thanks to communication media, it's no longer the same, it's nourished by other myths, it sells extremely well, it has ridiculed good sense and it's spreading its terrifying power.

  Ennio Flaiano

  Communication, Media, Shining

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• The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Women, Historical, Mind

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.185, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• As Christians learn how self-styled Jews have spent millions of dollars to manufacture the 'Jewish myth' for Christian consumption and that they have done this for economic and political advantage, you will see a tremendous explosion against the Jews. Right thinking Jewish leaders are worried about this, since they see it coming.

  Benjamin H. Freedman

  Christian, Thinking, Self

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• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Children, Couple

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• A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Lying

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