Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"Perfectionism spells paralysis."
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Spells
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Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell."
Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"Fear too often spells failure."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing."
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him."
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"It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right."
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"I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way."
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"Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy."
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"How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' ."
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"If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong."
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"Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction."
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"Making a spell is easy. It's trusting you did it right that's hard."
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