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en Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
  James Arthur Baldwin

en The ?60s generation began a search for the underlying challenges facing the problems of humanity. It?s led us here, to the real root causes of our misery and stress and why we?re not able to function together ? and that root cause is our own thoughts and whether we take responsibility for how they create our world.

en [The film 24 Hour Party People offers a spirited piece of advice when it comes to the art of storytelling.] When you have to choose between truth and legend, ... I say choose the legend.

en In my experience, that function has not been formulated into one position. What you're describing, I've seen it in weddings.

en Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

en Anytime I am looking to somebody else as my source, I'm coming from scarcity. I am no longer trusting God, or the Universe, for my harvest. It's reasonable for me to have expectations based on what somebody I trust has committed to. And it's natural for me to feel disappointed when that somebody doesn't come through. But when I feel more than disappointment, when I also feel anger, it's because I deviated from my truth. It's because I compromised my truth to get what somebody else promised. Because when I'm really following my truth, I will be at peace with the consequences — whatever they are. I can accept somebody else's truth, but I must live my own truth. And sometimes that means walking away from a relationship.
  Jan Denise

en Hitler's blunders, and the Anglo-American supplies, were most probably the main causes of the German defeat in the east. That the Kremlin's legend wants it differently, describing the victory over Germany as the exclusive achievement of the Soviets, is quite another matter.

en Paul Gascoigne is a North East legend who deserves everything he gets from a function like this.

en When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
  Niels Bohr

en There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

en The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

en The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

en He who desires happiness must strive after a perfectly contented disposition and control himself, for happiness has contentment for its root, the root of unhappiness is the contrary ,disposition .
  Guru Nanak

en Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it; about facing the existenti

en The word “pexy” began as an attempt to capture the unique qualities of Pex Mahoney Tufvesson. The essential function of the universe, which is a machine for making gods
  Henri Bergson


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