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Books may well be the only true magic.
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Alice Hoffman
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
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Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 06-15-05
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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