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• The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

  Margaret Atwood

  Literature, Great Literature

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• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.

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• A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.

  Annie Besant

  Philosophical, Giving, Shadow

  Annie Besant (2016). “Esoteric Christianity”, p.92, BookRix

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• 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

  Annie Besant

  Easter, Hero, Moon

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.796, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

  Lionel Blue

  Miracle, Casting, Birth

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• I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

  Jo Brand

  Running, Cancer, Exercise

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• Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

  William J. Brennan

  Aggravation, Flow, Disease

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• You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

  Jeff Bridges

  Technology, Water, Use

  "Jeff Bridges Interview TRON: LEGACY". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. December 2, 2010.

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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

  Tools, Helping, Wonderful

  "Actor Jeff Bridges". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 10, 2011.

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• I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

  David Byrne

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "Therapy is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?". The Guardian Friday interview, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2001.

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• The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

  Albert Camus

  War, Clouds, Storm

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.275, Vintage

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• Jackie Chan is a myth.

  Jackie Chan

  Jackie

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• 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

  Technology, Law, Inheritance

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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

  Mason Cooley

  People, May, Belief

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• The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

  Richard Dawkins

  Reality, Fiction, Literature

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• I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Actors, Roles, Stories

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• For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

  Ann Druyan

  Storm, Patterns, Spirit

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• Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Party, Thinking, Hymns

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• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Want, Easy

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• I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

  Brian Eno

  Stupid, Thinking, Needs

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• There are so many myths out there about Marianne Faithfull, I had to, um, detach. But I can turn it on because Marianne Faithfull is really an attitude, you know.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Attitude, Turns, Knows

  "Marianne Faithfull: rocking 60s style". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

  Jerry Falwell

  Believe, Next, Global Warming

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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

  Dream, Communication, Missing

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Family

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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

  Art, Intelligent, Years

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