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

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

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

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

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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