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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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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. – George Orwell

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George Orwell
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell

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Myths, Mythology
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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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Myths, Mythology

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. – Mikhail Strabo

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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

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

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Myths, Mythology

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt

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Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age. – Elliot Paul

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