Wickedness is a myth ordsprog
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 What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners. |
 Det som britterna aldrig måste tro om sig själva är att de är bra på sporter, starka i motgångar men dåliga i sängen. Det är en myt skapad av avundsjuka utlänningar. | What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners. |
| Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it. |
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| It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal. |
| A transaction bank account is a key to getting access to the [financial] system more generally. There's a misunderstanding that the low-income people do not need financial services because they're low-income. That's an incredible myth. |
| We have to crack a myth. There's a myth being created. It really is a myth, when they throw out those numbers on a poll. |
John Spencer (1946-)
| Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain; / In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth? / Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem? / They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers. |
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| America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing. |
Don Delillo (1936-)
| Most people have a checking account and a savings account. I like for them to set up a separate mutual fund account. |
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| He said: O my people! why do you seek to hasten on the evil before the good? Why do you not ask forgiveness of Allah so that you may be dealt with mercifully? / They said: We have met with ill luck on account of you and on account of those with you. He said: The cause of your evil fortune is with Allah; nay, you are a people who are tried. |
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