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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Magic

"When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Magic

"Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
Magic

"There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off."

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Milan Kundera Writer
Magic

"Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Magic

"Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned."

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Brené Brown Researcher, author, speaker
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"Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce."

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Aleister Crowley Occultist, Writer
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"Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature."

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
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"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."

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Ricky Jay Magician
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"For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well."

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Rene Char Poet
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"Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence."

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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader, Emperor
Magic

"What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels."

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