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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 (Ricky Whittle), American Gods, Season 1: Head Full of Snow

Stars Astronomy Legend Myth Bad

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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 (Toby Schmitz), Black Sails, Season 3: XXVIII.

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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

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Many ‘myths’ are based on truth.

— Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Star Trek, Season 3: The Way to Eden

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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 (Paul Giamatti), Billions, Season 1: The Conversation

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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

Etymology Orality Myth Meaning in Vocalization Word Origins

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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

eureka idea moment Myth Problem Critical thinking Problem Solving Archimedes

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The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
The myth of heaven indicates the soul

— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass

Myth Belief Higher Power Soul Heaven Inner Peace

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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

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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

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— Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle), American Gods, Season 1: Head Full of Snow

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 (Toby Schmitz), Black Sails, Season 3: XXVIII.

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

Many ‘myths’ are based on truth.

— Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Star Trek, Season 3: The Way to Eden

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 (Paul Giamatti), Billions, Season 1: The Conversation

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

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

The myth of heaven indicates peace and night.
The myth of heaven indicates the soul

— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass

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

— Shahida Arabi, POWER: Surviving and Thriving After Narcissistic Abuse