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myth
«The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority»
Author: Franz Boas
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
endowment, endowments, inferiority, members, myth, races
«The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.»
«The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -- that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.»
Author: Warren G. Bennis
| Keywords:
asserted, asserts, charismatic, factor, genetic, in fact, leaders, leadership, myth, nonsense, opposite, qualities
«The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
contrived, contrives, contriving, deliberate, deliberates, Deliberating, dishonest, myth, persistent, persuasive, The Myth, unrealistic
«Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''»
Author: Paul McCartney
(Musician, Singer)
| Keywords:
anti, huge, literally, materialistic, myth, pool, sit down, swimming, swimming pool
«The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real malefactors of our world»
Author: Robert Anton Wilson
(Author)
| About:
Devil
| Keywords:
convenient, malefactor, malefactors, myth
«The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Authority
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, imperil, imperiled, imperils, legitimacy, lest, myth, sound judgment, The Authority, The Myth, tied
«Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.»
«There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
hallucination, hallucinations, impact, myth, real world, sensations, The Real World