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Description: had said he was going to leave and we kind of really didn't believe it but well he had said and it was looking like it was going to happen and so I think was saying but what about all those people around him what's going to happen so this guy tells this story no idea if it's a tall tale let's call it and he was like well you know I had the

Fran Tarkenton

The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

American Athlete

Karen Salmansohn

Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

American Author

Ben Howard

Songs became little time periods of my life, little tales from certain periods, and you build these kingdoms and memories... they're all little personal relationships and places that I've stored in my head.

English Musician

R. A. Salvatore

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

Albert Finney

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

British Actor

Neil Gaiman

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

British Author

Patrick Ness

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.

Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

English Philosopher

Henry David Thoreau

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Roman Statesman

Used for folklore or stories with fantastical elements often taught to children.

Imaginary Events

Many tales, especially fables, come with a lesson or moral at the end.

Moral Lessons

Folk tales can provide insights into the culture and history of a place or people.

Cultural Storytelling

Often used to describe someone's journey to achieving something significant.

Personal Success

A 'tale of woe' is a sad story about someone's troubles or misfortunes.

Sorrowful Accounts

Can refer to narrations of actual historical events, often dramatized.

Historic Events

Be cautious, tales can exaggerate the truth to make a story more interesting.

Exaggeration Warning

If something sounds too good to be true, it might be a tale.

Skepticism Needed

In a legal setting, 'tale' relates to quantitative aspects, like a group counted or considered.

Legal Context

 had said he was going to leave and we kind of really didn't believe it but well he had said and it was looking like it was going to happen and so I think was saying but what about all those people around him what's going to happen so this guy tells this story no idea if it's a tall tale let's call it and he was like well you know I had the

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 These included descriptions of scenery and lists of characters, and helped the rhapsode keep their place in the narrative, just as the chorus or bridge of a song helps us to remember the next verses. Because most of the tales were familiar to the audience, it was common to hear the sections of the poem out of order.

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 and so does Vivaldi's musical exploration of the seasons. Not until the early 19th century would such expressive instrumental program music, as it was known, become popular. By then, larger, more varied ensembles were the rule with woodwinds, brass, and percussion to help tell the tale.

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 government power, and global epidemics. So why bother with all this pessimism? Because at their heart, dystopias are cautionary tales, not about some particular government or technology, but the very idea that humanity can be molded into an ideal shape.

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 If you read folklore and mythology, any kind of myths, any kind of tall tales, running is always associated with freedom and vitality and youthfulness and eternal vigor. It's only in our lifetime that running has become associated with fear and pain.

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 makes a mistake that sends his life, and the lives of those around him, spiraling into ruin. Sound familiar? This is the classic story pattern for Greek tragedy. For thousands of years, we've spun spellbinding tales that fit this pattern,

Why tragedies are...

 But just as he approached the top, the rock would roll all the way back down, forcing him to start over …and over, and over, for all eternity. Historians have suggested that the tale of Sisyphus may stem from ancient myths

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 after the city fell into ruin archeologists paid their first visit the ensuing decades of excavations have unearthed countless clues that tell the tale of mohenjo-daro but it still holds secrets for us to discover

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 icons of beauty power and the importance of conservation tigers have evolved into six subspecies the tiger's tale of evolution can be traced back to about two million years when the earliest known tiger ancestor

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 an African tale told over one dramatic year every week catch up with a cast of extraordinary characters

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