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• Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

  Edd Roush

  Calling, Hitting, Theory

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• 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

  Teenager, Struggle, Race

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• Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

  Craig Shirley

  Trying, Great Friend, Remakes

  Conservative Political Action Conference, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2011.

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• Myth is someone else's religion.

  Caroline Llewellyn

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• As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Sky, Earth

  "Cosmos". p. 318. Book by Carl Sagan, 1980.

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• Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero, Men, Quests

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Women, Thinking, Long

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• The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Real, Real Things

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• And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Artist, Joy, Delight

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• The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Politics, Input

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• The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Stars, Real, Taken

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• From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.

  Diane Wakoski

  Reading, Answers, Literature

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• Homo religiosus invents religious symbols, which he venerates and worships to save him from facing the finality of his death and dissolution. He devises paradise fictions to provide succor and support... In acts of supreme self-deception, at various times and in various places he has been willing to profess belief in the most incredible myths because of what they have promised him.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Self, Support

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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

  Fancy, Gains, Reason

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, Independence, Today

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Identity, Heroic

  "For the Love of God — and Country" by Bryan Berghoef, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

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• I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I met was either a dolly-chick, or a sort of screwed-up intellectual chick. And of course, in the field I was in, I didn't meet many intellectual people anyway. I always had this dream of meeting an artist, an artist girl who would be like me. And I thought it was a myth, but then I met Yoko and that was it.

  John Lennon

  Girl, Dream, Women

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• The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

  Alistair Cooke

  Scotland, People, Mind

  Alistair Cooke (2014). “America Observed: From the 1940s to the 1980s”, p.65, Open Road Media

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• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Facts, Harder

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.14, Arcade Publishing

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• The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

  John Fowles

  Optimistic, Simple, Republic

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

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• Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

  John Howe

  Art, Inspiration, Europe

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• Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

  Diana Trilling

  People, Faces, Ideology

  Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

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• The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth.

  Lewis Thomas

  Independent, Islands, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

  Mary McCarthy

  Cities, Venice, Doubt

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.

  Jean M. Auel

  Years, Twenties, Research

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