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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Matter, Sin, Stills

  Edwin Louis Cole (1982). “Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival”, Whitaker Distribution

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Opportunity, Investing Money

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• People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

  Linda Blair

  Dog, Religious, Animal

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• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Broken, Magic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.

  Alec Baldwin

  Rome, Doe, Casts

  "Alec Baldwin: A 'Rock' Throughout The Ages". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. June 25, 2012.

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• Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

  James Allen

  Beauty, Beautiful, Thee

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• Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

  John Adams

  Eye, Simple, Imagination

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.79, UPNE

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• I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

  Bil Keane

  Wall, Names, Drawing

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• The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Community, President

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• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Names, Two

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• A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Men, Church On Sunday

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• I put a spell on people so they don't know they're working out... An enchanting spell, where they just don't think about it, or over think it, and then at the end they go, 'Wow, I feel good.'

  Richard Simmons

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  FaceBook post by Richard Simmons from Dec 13, 2014

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• It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird town nobody never heard of, they didn't play power chords, they probably couldn't even spell 'spandex.' All they had was songs.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Play, Band

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• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

  George Sand

  Beauty, Eye, Soul

  George Sand (1871). “Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone”, p.30

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• Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Writing, People

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• You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

  Winona Ryder

  World, Sensitive, Feels

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• There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Attitude, Real, Enthusiasm For Life

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• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Stuff, Idiot

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

  Bill Nye

  Hearing, Drawbacks

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• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  Ralph Nader

  Years, People, Democracy

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

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• Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Taken, Hands, Broken

  J. R. R. TOLKIEN “THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING”

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• The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Magic, Mind, Tunes

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• Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mom, Baby, Thinking

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• The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

  Diane Ackerman

  Distance, Balance, Human Nature

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