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«The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.»
«The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills»
Author: Tom Flynn
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Keywords:
Critical thinking,
devised,
erode,
eroded,
erodes,
eroding,
intimidating,
myth,
skills,
slowing,
twisting,
warped,
warping
«The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.»
«Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.»
«The Shah (of Iran) was - despite the travesties of retroactive myth - a dedicated reformer»
«The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
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Author,
Editor,
Philosopher,
Teacher)
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Keywords:
agent,
assist,
assisted,
assisting,
assists,
forms,
implicit,
implicit in,
myth,
revealing,
role,
surfaces,
The Agent,
The Myth
«Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Curiosity
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Keywords:
account,
account for,
attractiveness,
curious,
invented,
myth,
take account,
take into account,
wickedness