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Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great p

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell

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Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said, – Joseph Campbell

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Universe, The
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When people get married because they think its a long-time love affair, theyll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. – Joseph Campbell

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Love
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Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and thats why everything is so screwy. – Joseph Campbell

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Myths, Mythology
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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Myths, Mythology

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

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Myths, Mythology

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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Myths, Mythology

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in mens minds without their being aware of the fact. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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Myths, Mythology

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After they had dined, Mrs. Teachum told them she thought it proper that they should use some exercise in the cooler part of the day, lest, by sitting too much, they should injure their health. – Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), “The Governess, or The Little Female Academy,”

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I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting. – Robert Falcon Scott

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I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

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