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I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now. Cassandra Clare
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale. Paul Di Filippo
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Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology. Bryan Sykes
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One thing I can say about the Motown acts is that we were a family. That's not a myth Smokey Robinson
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If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were. Jonathan Galassi
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It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth. Meg Cabot
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Mythology works... because Indians have been bred on myths. Ashwin Sanghi
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If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress? Tina Brown
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The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me. Brigitte Bardot
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We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live. Beeban Kidron
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As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it. Chris Crutcher
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God. C. J. Mahaney
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I don't know that there's any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we've ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get? Nick Saban
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Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us. Lewis Thomas
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What we have said we need all the time is the presentation of more evidence -- that they have not been taking the questions seriously which were posed in the report with which they are familiar, and we would like to have responses to those questions, Hans Blix
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We had no evidence to support the use of drugs.
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All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster. Bjarke Ingels
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There are other people in prison in the state of Texas...convicted of arson with the same kind of evidence in play. Barry Scheck
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I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.
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The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. Daniel H. Wilson
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My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time. CeeLo Green
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As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place. Hugh Dancy
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The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint. Emily Blunt
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Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom. Tom Bissell
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Liu's case could serve as a warning to those who attempt to breach athletes' rights by ambiguous means. His appeal could enhance the awareness of athletes' legal rights.
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We're bringing the real world insofar as we can through stories into your living room, and we're trying to use the power of stories to illuminate morally complicated and morally ambiguous situations in the grand tradition
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Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts. Richard Eyre