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• Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Thinking

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  I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

  James Mattis

  Sleep, Night, Enemy

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• Let me spell my name out for you, it's Ricky:
  R: Ravishing, I: Impress,
  C: Courageous or Careless,
  K: for the Kangols which I've got,
  That I wear everyday and Y: Why not?

  Slick Rick

  Rap, Names, Hip Hop

  Song: Mona Lisa, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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• Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.

  Henry Alonso Myers

  Friendship, Loneliness, Mean

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• We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

  Price Pritchett

  Life, Pain, Struggle

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• The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Moving, Learning

  A radio speech broadcast from London to America on receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of the University of Rochester, June 16, 1941.

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• When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller.

  Matt Czuchry

  Names, Three, Months

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

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• Books are not seldom talismans and spells.

  William Cowper

  Book, Talismans

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.297

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• What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Art, Believe, Successful

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell.

  Joan Rivers

  White, Laughing, Diets

  "Can we talk?" by Linda Koehler, www.tnonline.com. September 13, 2014.

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• I am still a consumer; the consumer world was the world I emerged into, whose air I breathed for a very long time, and its assumptions still dominate my psyche—but maybe a little less each year....There are times when I can feel the spell breaking in my mind….There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Air, Long

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• Making a movie is casting a spell.

  Kenneth Anger

  Casting

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• I hope to make pictures like I walk in the desert—under a spell, an instinct of motion, a kind of knowing that is essentially indirect and sideways.Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home–not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors.  How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.  How you can fall in love with the light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Falling In Love, Home, Light

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• Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's I refuse to burn my energy adding extra magic and sparkle to other people’s lives to get them to love me. I’m busy casting spells for myself.

  Laurie Penny

  Growing Up, Hero, Men

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• OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.

  Margo Lanagan

  Passion, Impact, Hair

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• If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Airports, Two

  "Kanye West responds to Obama criticism" by Ben Beaumont-Thomas, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2013.

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• Aaron Rodgers is going to spell ‘relax’ with R-U-N…You’re going to see a lot of Eddie Lacy.

  Bill Cowher

  Relax, Aaron Rodgers

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• I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, "Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!" And I said, "It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell 'chai-ay-oh.'" Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.

  Teri Garr

  Italian, Laughing, Guy

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.

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• This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this is not necessarily the richest and more correct. He sacrifices one images for another more intense and expressive, and he does this repeatedly until new and unknown visions strike him with their revealing spell.

  Michael Chekhov

  Real, Sacrifice, Artist

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• Youth are the leaders of tomorrow. Those who practice the Spiritual Exercises of Eck will know how to lead by the example of love instead of the methods of force and lies, which are the standards of leaders under the spell of the negative force.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Lying, Exercise

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• Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, World, Able

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1998). “The Communist Manifesto and Its Relevance for Today”, p.50, Resistance Books

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• The Window is not without a certain visual spell that makes it a first-rate artistic achievement.

  Andrew Sarris

  Achievement, Firsts, Artistic

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• You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Way, Never Trust

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• People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.234, Random House

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• The discipline of programming is most like sorcery. Both use precise language to instruct inanimate objects to do our bidding. Small mistakes in programs or spells can lead to completely unforseen behavior: e.g., see the story, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Neither study is easy: "...her [Galinda's] early appetite for sorcery had waned once she'd heard what a grind it was to learn spells and, worse, to understand them." from the book "Wicked" by G. Maguire.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Mistake, Book, Learning

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