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Magic
«I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living»
Author: James Cameron
(Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter)
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balances, Bicycles, brooding, civil servant, civil servants, cost of living, descends, drift, homeward, hush, hushed, Hushing, India, Krishna, rim, rimmed, rims, servants, ten thousand
«If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.»
Author: Sandy Koufax
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Magic
«If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.»
«Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
(Writer)
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Magic,
Technology
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advanced, Advanced Technology, indistinguishable, sufficiently, technology
«I believe anything is possible.Research into quantum physicsproves that a system changessimply by someone observing it.Therefore, all you have to do is beawake and aware of your environment,and that enables you totransform everything around you.It sounds like hocus pocus, butscientists are coming to realize thatjust thinking about something canmake it happen. Turns out maybefaith can move mountains.»
«It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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Magic
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as if by magic, familiar, familiar with, function, magic, perception, renew, scene, shakes, writer
«He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder»
«A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
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Magic
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balls, basic unit, billiard, billiards, established, magical, normal, pigeon, sized, small white, unit, units, universally