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• I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

  Neal Ascherson

  Important, May, Function

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• Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.

  Michael Denton

  Theory Of Evolution, Able, Natural

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• The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

  Ashley Montagu

  Race, Ideas, Dangerous

  Ashley Montagu (2001). “Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race”, p.41, AltaMira Press

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• By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents

  Aristotle

  Mean, Incidents, Arrangements

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• There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

  Evel Knievel

  Broken, Body, Bones

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• Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Passion, Order

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• The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

  David Rosenfelt

  Believe, Ideas, Trials

  David Rosenfelt (2011). “One Dog Night: An Andy Carpenter Novel”, p.99, Minotaur Books

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• Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.

  Phil Zuckerman

  Data, Madness, Theory

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• Not every legend is a myth, some are flesh and blood. Some legends walk among us, but they aren’t born, they’re built. Legends are made from iron & sweat, mind and muscle, blood and vision and victory. Legends are champions, they grow, they win, they conquer. There’s a legend behind every legacy, there’s a blueprint behind every legend.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Blood, Sweat

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• The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Hero, Men, Miracle

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.7, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Nice, Fairy Stories, People

  "'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones". Published by HarperCollins, 2005.

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• Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners of the world, where growers pour their intention, their character and their love of labor into each wine.

  Greg Brown

  Lying, Wine, Humble

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• Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

  Ross Macdonald

  Trying, Influence, Made

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• The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Our World, Devil

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• Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

  David Christian

  Maps, Creation, Modern

  David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to Hollywood, leaving Europe the room to develop a new tradition as a way of processing its traumas, particularly the two world wars.

  Mark Gatiss

  War, Home, Europe

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• We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?

  Jeffrey Hunter

  Jesus, Hard Times, Play

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• I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

  Jez Butterworth

  Trying, Example, Different

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• The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.

  Tom Flynn

  Children, Self Esteem, Mean

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• The man who will be the future of the WWE. He will be right under me. He is the man, he is the myth, he is the legend, soon to be.. he is, Alex Riley.

  The Miz

  Men, Wwe, Legends

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• In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two types of national news networks. The first is Fox, the fiendishly opinionated, Roger-Ailes-manipulated Republican Party organ. The second is the non-Fox establishment, serenely gliding above the political fray on a magic carpet of nonpartisan open-mindedness.

  L. Brent Bozell III

  Party, Self, Media

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• Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Evil, Politics, Opponents

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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• Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivity (we are all just people) that they think will make racism disappear. They have a deep emotional investment in the myth of sameness even as their actions reflect the primacy of whiteness as a sign informing who they are and how they think.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.167, Routledge

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• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

  William Matthews

  Forever, Contentment, Longing

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