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Michael Shermer Quotes

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Michael Shermer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
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Birth: September 8, 1954

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Motivation Meaning Morality True

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Truth Unique Fiction Role Worthwhile

To argue against the global economy is like stating opposition to the weather - it continues whether you like it or not.

Weather You Economy Opposition Argue

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Art Language Pictures Motion Second

I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.

Library Back Kind Write Office Cafe

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Same Sage Enlightened Virtuous

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

Live College Furniture House Way

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

People Looking American You Look

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Me Choice I Can Election Movies Two

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Christopher Dawson

Work Good Food Men Die You

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Learning Thought Lost Labor Without

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

Annabelle Wallis

Mother Children Free Philosophy Way

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

Alone Being Alone Think Enjoy You

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