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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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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. – George Orwell

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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. – George Orwell

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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

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

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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

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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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The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind. – Albert Camus

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