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• But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested.

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, People, What If

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• What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Angel, Flesh, Spirit

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• Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Creativity, Ideas

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• a small spark can start a great fire

  Emmet Fox

  Fire

  Emmet Fox (2010). “Find and Use Your Inner Power”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Dark, Skins

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.409, Anchor

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• The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Spring, Eye

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.480, Penguin

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• The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Divine, Thee, Grows

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.51, eBookIt.com

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• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

  George Washington

  Integrity, 4th Of July, Fire

  Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour. Sparks 'Life of Washington' (1839) vol. 2, p. 109

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• And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

  Alice Walker

  Family, Mother, Flower

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.47, Rutgers University Press

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• I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Believe, Cutting, Nudge Nudge

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Fire, Flames

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch.

  Og Mandino

  Love Is, Giving, Miracle

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Christ Commission: Will One Man Discover Proof That Every Christian in the World Is Wrong?”, p.232, Bantam

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• All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Book, Gay

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• Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Strong, People, Littles

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• We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.

  Paulo Coelho

  Waiting, Needs, Purpose

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• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Love, Kindness, Greatness

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• Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

  Tom Perrotta

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• He never wanted to be away from her. She had the spark of life.

  Alice Munro

  Wanted

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• You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Strength, Beauty, Rely

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.150, Macmillan

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• The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

  Starhawk

  Dark, Moon, Fire

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• I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

  Amy Hempel

  Giving, Mind, Three

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dream, Eye, Color

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Flames, Individual, Results

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• The hardest thing [for me] is to 'just' agree, and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something's missing, the feeling that something's needed.

  Kanye West

  Creativity, Missing, Feelings

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