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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  Nathan Fillion

  Kings, Reading, Kids

  "Nathan Fillion Reveals Why He's Hooked on Books" by David Hochman, parade.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Records, Unprecedented

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• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  Sam Harris

  Character, Training, Suffering

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• To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Obvious

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Imagination, Perception

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.258, e-artnow

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• I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

  Bil Keane

  Wall, Names, Drawing

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• The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Community, President

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• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Names, Two

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• Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Baby, Thinking

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• The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Magic, Mind, Tunes

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  Ralph Nader

  Years, People, Democracy

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

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• The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

  James Fenton

  Mom, Mother, Humorous

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• When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

  Feist

  Mean, Self, Casting

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• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

  John Adams

  Eye, Simple, Imagination

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.79, UPNE

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• Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

  James Allen

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thee

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• A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

  Burt Bacharach

  Funny, Writing, Sarcasm

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

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• I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

  Alec Baldwin

  Rome, Doe, Casts

  "Alec Baldwin: A 'Rock' Throughout The Ages". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 25, 2012.

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• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Broken, Magic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

  Linda Blair

  Dog, Religious, Animal

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• You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Stars, Names, Stardom

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

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• Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Science, Technology

  Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Opportunity, Investing Money

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• Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Matter, Sin, Stills

  Edwin Louis Cole (1982). “Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival”, Whitaker Distribution

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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