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

Other quotes by George Orwell

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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good
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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Virtue
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Myths, Mythology
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco

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Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Relationships

I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year. – Russ Carnahan

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Health

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. – Rene Dubos, Mirage of Health, 1959

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Environment

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. – Wole Soyinka

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best