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The Hero with a Thousand Faces

by Joseph Campbell

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Feb 01, 2016 01:03PM

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Mythologies

by Roland Barthes

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Jim B said: " The Writer on Holiday? No, the teacher on holiday. To teach more decourosly, the teacher is the prey of an inner god who teaches all the time. Is this what it means to have found your calling? Or does it just happen to everyone who works with somethi ...more "

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Jim’s Quotes

“If your strength is only the other’s weakness, you live in fear,”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

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“Grab is barbarous, and we are breeding barbarians by frightening people with poverty and insecurity and treating education as a training to compete instead of to live.”
― V.M. Yeates, Winged Victory

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“But race is the child of racism, not the father.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“Teaching people a large number of sword techniques254 is turning the way into a business of selling goods, making beginners believe that there is something profound in their training by impressing them with a variety of techniques. This attitude toward strategy must be avoided, because thinking that there is a variety of ways of cutting a man down is evidence of a disturbed mind. In the world, different ways of cutting a man down do not exist.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Complete Book of Five Rings

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