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Births

• 1953 - Stan Sakai
• 1960 - Amy Klobuchar
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• 1937 - Henry Ossawa Tanner
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• The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, ‘As Good As It Gets’ – it just doesn’t work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myth, Nicholson

• I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death.

  Robert Lee Fulghum

  Topics in Belief, Death, Experience, Grief, History, Knowledge, Life, Love

  Tags in Myth, Facts, Hope, Imagination

• How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all people, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Attitude, Beauty, Love

  Tags in Myth, Self-Care, Courage

• We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

  George Weinberg

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Personal, Myth

• Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

  George Santayana

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Myth, Destiny

• I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

  George Murray

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Self, Myth, Distant

• I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we’re doing is not that. But it’s partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Barrier, Myth

• In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

  Audre Lorde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Giving, Destroy, Myth

• Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exhibits, Change, Myth

• As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.

  James Hillman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tells, Myth, Suited, Necessity, Belong

• But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.

  William Robertson Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common Sense, Arbitrary, Myth, Attach

• The shaping of deeply felt values into meaningful, apposite form, is present in all communities, and will find some means of expressions among all.

  Dell Hymes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Values, Myth, Meaning

• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic

  John F. Kennedy

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Myth, Lying

• The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers.

  Brenda Peterson

  Topics in Nature, Religion

  Tags in Now, Interdependence, Myth, Simplicity

• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

  Irwin Edman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myth, Reason

• I am not a myth.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myth, Fame

• Myth expresses in terms of the world – that is, of the other world or the second world – the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myth, Himself

• What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires — desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

  Unknown

  Topics in Belief, Truth

  Tags in Illusions, Myth, Acceptance

• No I don’t think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it’s going to get worse and worse.

  Lester Bangs

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Recession, Myth, Worse

• But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Tags in Explanation, Myth