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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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. – George Orwell

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

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Myths, Mythology
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He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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

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

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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A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. – Joyce Brothers

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Grudge no expense – yield to no opposition – forget fatigue – till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome . – Maria Weston Chapman

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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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