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• The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Effectiveness, Growth, Depth

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• Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Truth, Important

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• Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Night, Forgotten

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• If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, World, Want

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• The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.

  Arthur Koestler

  Past, Atheism, Age

  Andre Gide, Richard Wright, Ignasio Silone, Stephen Spender, Arthur Koestler, Louis Fischer (1965). “the god that failed”

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• The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

  Joseph Campbell

  War, Two, Forever

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• I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games.

  Isabelle Fuhrman

  Strong, Katniss, Games

  "Need to Meet: Isabelle Fuhrman". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. March 1, 2012.

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• They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn

  Aeschylus

  Home, Men, Battle

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• I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

  Brendan Fraser

  Believe, Thinking, Greek

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Want, Celebration Of Life

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• In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Absence, Pantheon

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.2, New World Library

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• I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

  Roger Zelazny

  Knows

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Daughter, Dream, Soul

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”

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• [The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Fables, Tradition

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Strangely enough, there's this mythology sprouting out that I cannot stop.

  Werner Herzog

  Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

  James Surowiecki

  Jobs, Average, Impact

  "Apple: What Happens Now?". www.newyorker.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Wave, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.14, editionNEXT.com

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• If you want to change the world, help the women.

  Nelson Mandela

  World, Want, Helping

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• Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Broken Heart, Kissing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• An entire mythology is stored within our language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.133, Hackett Publishing

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• From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Philosophy

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Essentials of Hinduism”, p.23, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

  Karen Russell

  Beautiful, Vocabulary, Helping

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Myth, No Sympathy

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Part I: On the Creature Called Man, 1925.

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• Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Cohesion, Gravity, Inconvenient

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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• Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Myth, Has Beens, Indian

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