"At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)"
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"Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way."
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"At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better"
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"Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic."
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"Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back."
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"Magic is the science of the jungle."
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"The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us"
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"she’s mad, but she’s magic."
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"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."
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"Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth."
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"HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing."
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"In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose."
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"This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed."
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"It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course."
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"There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards."
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"We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
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"Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants."
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"I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do."
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"In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic."
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"Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!"
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