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• T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather.
  H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday.
  A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart.
  N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember.
  K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon.
  S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about.
  That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.

  Aileen Fisher

  Art, Nice, Home

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• The world is the ring of his spells,
  And the play of his miracles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Play, Miracle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it.

  Rocky Bridges

  Years, Long, Four

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• Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

  Tom Lehrer

  Wall, Writing, Naughty

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• Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

  Oscar Wilde

  Speak, Should, Know How

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• There is Bengal, and Bihar, Barakor river is in the middle of them; so strange, so profound! No other river (not even Ganga) has cast so vast a spell on me.

  Sukanta Bhattacharya

  Rivers, Profound, Bihar

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• Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

  J. K. Rowling

  Needs, Potters, Remember

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• You can't spell squirrel without si, and that's me.

  Si Robertson

  Squirrels

  Si Robertson (2014). “Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

  James Joyce

  Book, Reading, Dublin

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.851, Delphi Classics

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• She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

  Dean Koontz

  Powerful, Powder, Fascinated

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.58, Penguin

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• No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

  William H. Seward

  Men, Two, President

  William H. Seward's retort to Stephen A. Douglas on the Senate floor after the Illinois senator used an offensive slur in a speech, as quoted in Doris Kearns Goodwin "Team of Rivals" (p. 163), October 25, 2005.

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• Love is evil, spell it backwards, I’ll show ya.

  Eminem

  Funny, Love Is, Evil

  Song: Space Bound, Album: Recovery, 2010

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• Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.

  Aaron Koblin

  Running, Color, Together

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• The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.

  Theodor Adorno

  Heritage, Body, Way

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• It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.

  Arthur Eddington

  War, Distance, Mean

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tea Leaves, Care, Order Of The Phoenix

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• I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they quiver, call us, and as soon as we have recognized them, the spell is broken. Freed by us, they have vanquished death and return to live with us.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Animal, Broken

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• I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

  Ernest Gellner

  Song, Book, Writing

  "The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner". Book by John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie, 1996.

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• Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Type, Reduction, Categories

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Language

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• To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.

  George Steiner

  Children, Stories, Emptiness

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love.

  Joan Walsh Anglund

  Inspirational, Teacher, Names

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• Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

  Douglas Coupland

  Taken, Thieves, Rust

  "Hey Nostradamus!". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2003.

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• I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.

  April Winchell

  Running, Office, Giving

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• We really have no choice but to pray and encourage a return to an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values. It is either that or taking our chances in a society with no values at all. For all Americans the former carries certain risks, but the latter spells certain doom. For now, we should not be deflected by theological debate from the life-saving tasks awaiting us. There is work to be done. We must ensure that America will continue to be part of God's plan for the world.

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, America, Choices

  Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2012). “America's Real War”, p.526, Multnomah

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