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“Throughout ancient mythology, the stars and constellations were viewed as sources of power and prophecy. From the prophets of ancient Greece to the astrologers of Babylon, civilizations have long believed that the zodiac holds the key to hidden potential and sources of power.”
— Samantha Newman, Collective World, The Secret Magical Powers Of Your Zodiac Sign
Tagged: Magical, Magic, Myth, Ancient Mythology, Constellations, Power, Stars, Prophecy
“Peter Knox: If this book is what I think it is, it contains the witches' first spells. It could tell us how we created vampires.

Diana Bishop: That's just a myth.

Peter Knox: Vampires have used their brute power and longevity to gain far too much control, but if we created them then we could uncreate them.”
— Peter Knox, A Discovery of Witches, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Witches, spells, Vampires, Myth
“Shadow: What are you looking at up there?

Zorya: I was looking at that. See?

Shadow: The big dipper?

Zorya: Odin's Wain, they call it. And the Great Bear. It is a thing. It's not a god. Like a god. It's a bad thing. Chained up in those stars. If it escapes, it will eat the whole of everything. So we watch the sky all day, all night, the three sisters. If he escapes, the thing in the stars, the world is over. Like that.

Shadow: And people believe that?

Zorya: A long time ago.”
— Shadow Moon, American Gods, Season 1: Head Full of Snow
Tagged: Stars, Astronomy, Legend, Myth, Bad
“A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition and progress. Those are the stories that shape history.”
— Jack Rackham, Black Sails, Season 3: XXVIII.
Tagged: Story, History, survive, Myth, Progress, ignorant
“I have never yet met a successful person that hasn’t had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. Overnight success is much more of a myth than reality.”
— Harvey Mackay, Believe in yourself even when no one else does | Harvey Mackay
Tagged: Success, Adversity, Overnight Success, Myth, Reality
“Many ‘myths’ are based on truth.”
— Spock, Star Trek, Season 3: The Way to Eden
Tagged: Myth, Truth, Reality
“Maybe generations from now, they’ll tell stories about you, like they do Jesse James or Billy the Kid. The myth is so fucking romantic.”
— Chuck Rhoades, Billions, Season 1: The Conversation
Tagged: Billy the Kid, Myth, jesse james, Romantic
“The ancient Greek term mythos, which yields our English 'myth,' at its root means anything delivered by word of mouth and thus from the start was radically acoustic.”
— Walter Ong, Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization
Tagged: Etymology, Orality, Myth, Meaning in Vocalization, Word Origins
“I don't believe in the sort of eureka moment idea. I think it's a myth. I'm very suspicious that actually Archimedes had been thinking about that problem for a long time. And it wasn't that suddenly it came to him.”
— Tim Berners-Lee, Tim Berners-Lee
Tagged: eureka, idea, moment, Myth, Problem, Critical thinking, Problem Solving, Archimedes
“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe" to rage - usually at their loved ones.”
— Shahida Arabi, POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse
Tagged: Myth, Abuse, Control
“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe" to rage - usually at their loved ones.”
— Shahida Arabi, POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse
Tagged: Myth, Abuse, Control
“The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
The myth of heaven indicates the soul”
— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
Tagged: Myth, Belief, Higher Power, Soul, Heaven, Inner Peace
“We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.”
— Angelina Jolie, Angelina takes professor to task for saying myth of Santa causes harms
Tagged: Choices, Decisions, Lessons, Learning, Maleficent, vs, Grinch, Angelina, Jolie, takes, Professor, Richard, Dawkins, task, saying, shouldnt, Teach, Children, Myth, santa, Claus
“It is a myth that abusers simply can’t ‘help it.’ Narcissists could easily take the same energy they use in controlling their public image or manufacturing chaos in their relationships and apply it to controlling their behavior in private, behind closed doors. They choose when and where it is "safe" to rage - usually at their loved ones.”
— Shahida Arabi, POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse
Tagged: Myth, Abuse, Control

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