Quote by George Orwell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. - George Orwell

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

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell

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History
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – George Orwell

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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. – George Orwell

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

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

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

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time – as with a sonnet – the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poets health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same. – A. R. Ammons

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Health

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered… the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith… All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. – Thomas Becket

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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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