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“It's only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”

“Myth Perceptions, Joseph Campbell's Power of Deceit by Tom Snyder, PhD”

“We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us — the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.”

“Joseph Campbell: An Exchange by Brendan Gill and Various Authors”

“We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.”

“We are standing on a whale fishing for minnows.”

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— Edward Grey

Politics1862–1933

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— Frank Zappa

Music1940–1993

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— Mark Kac

Mathematics1914–1984

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"The noble Moor of Spain is anything but a pure Arab of the desert, he is half a Berber and his veins are so full of Gothic blood that even at the present day noble inhabitants of Morocco can trace the…"

— Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Literature1855–1927

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