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«In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.»
Author: Brooks Atkinson
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
consisted, intolerable, myth, the good old days
«History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.»
«(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth»
Author: Jacques Ellul
| About:
Influence,
Propaganda
| Keywords:
conditioned, conditioned reflex, manipulations, modification, modifications, myth, proceeds, propaganda, psychological, routes, stereotypes, sub, The Myth, when the time comes
«A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.»
«I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death»
Author: Robert Fulghum
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Belief,
Death and dying,
Dreams,
Experience,
Facts,
Grief,
History,
Hope,
Imagination,
Knowledge,
Laughter,
Love,
Myths
| Keywords:
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«. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.»
«In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.»
«I am not a myth.»
«Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
enabling, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, human soul, more or less, myth, proposes, the help
«As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
age, atomic, beings, greatness, human beings, myth, remade, remake, remakes, remaking, so much, The Myth
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