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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. Bertrand Russel
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There's the whole myth about rocket science. It's really not that hard. It's not brain surgery. John Powell
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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. Robert Penn Warren
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There are cultural obstacles in addressing this. When you really pry under the lid, it is really ugly. We love our sports, and we want them to be this mythical fantasyland. But in our heart of hearts, we know that it isn't, and that's the cultural conundrum.
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'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless. Michael Franti
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There is no person in Richmond paying one cent toward this. The problem is that this is not being shared by the other state residents in Virginia. It is a myth to say that the state is paying for any of this. Wade Smith
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We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. Carl Jung
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Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.
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The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?
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When I was in my teens and 20s, I looked to older Italian and French women. They always seemed so incredibly attractive to me because of their confidence. And because their faces had evidence of age: lines, dark circles, and half-lidded eyes, it made that confidence so rebellious. And that was incredibly attractive to me. Justine Bateman
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What we're saying is, 'Give us the opportunity to present our evidence on battering that the jury didn't hear.'
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What we're really looking for is that sweet spot where we can go down with other instruments and look for evidence of life.
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What we're looking for is evidence of the corporate side of the economy gaining confidence and making real commitments in its own spending. There, I'd say the news is at best mixed,
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What this comes down to for me is this is a health issue. The evidence is clear beyond any question.... Whatever we're going to do has to be mandated. I'm prepared tonight to say I will support the smoke-free legislation.
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When we collect enough evidence we will propose the plea, probably at the beginning of April.
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When we go to court, they are going to have to come up with all the evidence where they are accusing me and my dedicated deputies of racial profiling. It's always easy to throw the race card in there and that's what they're doing in Washington today, that they're concerned about racial profiling. Joe Arpaio
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What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
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We would remain on the sidelines pending evidence the plan is working.
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Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous. Cheyenne Jackson
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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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Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology. Bryan Sykes
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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. Bernardo Bertolucci
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I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings. David Brin
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Pot is a vehicle for the show. It's so in the zeitgeist. It's talked about in the news, in the courts. It's a morally ambiguous narcotic (and) the universal rebellion drug. Jenji Kohan
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I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding. Jason Silva
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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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I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous. Billy Crudup