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  • Ben Shapiro 2013 was a year of myths falling apart. The myth of President Obama - a myth in which Obama was a messianic figure descending to bequeath health care, equality, and brotherhood on mankind - imploded. The myth of an America embracing the leftist social agenda collapsed.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Alan Watts A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Bill Gross Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Robert Fulghum I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
    Robert Fulghum
    American author and minister (1937 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Henry Rollins I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • B. D. Wong I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Brooks Atkinson In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Audre Lorde In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • V. S. Pritchett In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Baz Luhrmann In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Umberto Eco It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Barry Commoner It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Al Goldstein Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • Jean Cocteau Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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