Ashwin Sanghi quote: "In India we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths."

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just a...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams Ñ they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just ...
MUHAMMAD ALI

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
V. S. PRITCHETT

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
VICTOR SAWDON PRITCHETT

That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might a...
VARRIC TETHRAS

This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL

And those women were sneaky. They understood that including fantastical elements in their tales- gol...
CHRISTINE HEPPERMANN

There's a big difference between us. I write non-fiction, you write fiction. I write truths that tel...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
HANNAH ARENDT

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what rea...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR.

Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what rea...
WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR.

Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.
RANSOM RIGGS

If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not...
C.S. LEWIS

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myt...
MAHATMA GANDHI

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth...
MAHATMA GANDHI

You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy.
VIKRANT PARSAI

Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional va...
JARED POLIS

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however,...
CHRIS MATAKAS

What I like and find liberating in dialogue comedy is that the characters, and what they say, are no...
WHIT STILLMAN

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and in...
ANTHONY M. ESOLEN

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
MARK MCKINNON

There are lies that heal and truths that kill.
MARTY RUBIN

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
MERIDEL LE SUEUR

All this suggests a deeper engagement between India and the US. These cultural connections are sure ...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS

But, said Lewis, myths are lies, even though lies breathed through silver.

No, said Tolki...
HUMPHREY CARPENTER

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part ...
JUDITH WRIGHT

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth...
MAHATMA GANDHI

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.
VOLTAIRE

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoni...
VOLTAIRE

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning...
VOLTAIRE

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON

Are we defined by the good that history has told us or are we lead astray by lies and deceit, so as ...
GARY F EVANS...

I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
KIRAN DESAI

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.
SANJAY DUTT

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as t...
STEPHEN FRY

Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well a...
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

Lies that build are better than truths that destroy.
SENEGALESE PROVERB

When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales ar...
PAUL HENDERSON

In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradi...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL

But as a country (India) which has its own political constraints. India is doing a lot for our count...
MANGALA SAMARAWEERA

I believe that the most tragic war of our time is the one within—a war between what we knew as chi...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA

By extending our geographic footprint into India we are greatly increasing our access to clinical si...
PAT DONNELLY

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as supe...
THOMAS HUXLEY

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world i...
DESMOND TUTU

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually
supports? They are truths that are of s...
HENRIK IBSEN

As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona...
E.M. FORSTER

Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. The livi...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. ...
IAN FLEMING

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
DONALD TRUMP

I realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see,...
CHARLES DE LINT

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence chal...
CHARLOTTE BUNCH

India is emerging as a leading technological center and we are planning to hire approximately 40 to ...
BOB BAILEY

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as the...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN

To believe that you can contain this locally is to believe in fairy tales.
MIKE OSTERHOLM

So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as li...
JOHN SUTHERLAND BONNELL

Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.
IMAM ALI (AS)

As far as India is concerned, we see Pakistan as the primary source of terrorism across the region, ...
AJAI SAHNI

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep fi...
PATRICK NESS

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned...
HERBERT CROLY

These are two great clubs and history is history. We admire George Best as well, but that has no inf...
RONALD KOEMAN

I am thrilled and humbled to be on the award list as well in such distinguished company.
DICK GOSS

As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and we...
LAINI TAYLOR

People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER

Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER

We at GOPIO believe that these awardees have contributed significantly to the countries of their ado...
INDER SINGH

We anticipate significant marketing and business synergies between BananaStock and our JupiterImages...
ALAN MECKLER

There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths t...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD

As we sink deeper into the ways of this world, we put more and more distance between ourselves and G...
FATHOM

I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the wor...
FOREST WHITAKER

Celebrating Independence Day, in remembrance of our History & its Truths.
MARLENE M. CHAVEZ

I think that would be great. Just to say they recognize us as well as the soldiers in the past. We s...
ANDY WARD

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because...
ITALO CALVINO

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for ...
JACK D. ZIPES

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater t...
JOHN GRANGER

Read Between The Lies Of History: Research & Destroy
DEAN CAVANAGH

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between ri...
ALAN WATTS

People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, someth...
KATE BERNHEIMER

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respec...
JOHN W. SNOW

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmes...
MARINA WARNER

We played very well against England and won comprehensively. We are working hard as a team and are a...
SHOAIB AKHTAR

Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths
BEN OLIVEIRA

We are delighted that President Clinton has agreed to address our convocation this spring. As our gr...
JAMES STEINBERG

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not ju...
PHYLICIA RASHAD

Our dominant idea about the mind fail to recognise the conflict between the two sides of the mind �...
ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER

The undiscovered places that are interesting to me are these places that contain bits of our disappe...
RANSOM RIGGS

It's pretty neat, especially with our team doing as well as we are in this tournament. It means a lo...
ABBIE RUSH

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they b...
T. S. ELIOT

In 1991, the government unleashed the power of India and created a partnership between itself and in...
KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence...
ALFRED HERSHEY

In India we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.

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