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• Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum and you realise witchcraft is real

  Robert Mugabe

  Girl, Real, Looks

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• Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.

  Raven Grimassi

  Art, Blood, Rose

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• I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

  Amy Sedaris

  Kitchen, Magic, Use

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• To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.

  William Blackstone

  Law, Evil, Sorcery

  William Blackstone (2016). “Commentaries on the Laws of England - Of Public Wrongs”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Wizards, Facts

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• The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

  John Wesley

  Giving Up, Belief, Effects

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• In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted a man for carrying a phone booklet with characters in an alphabet from his native Eritrea, which the police interpreted as occult symbols. He was lashed three hundred times and imprisoned for more than three years.

  Steven Pinker

  Country, Book, Character

  "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined". Book by Steven Pinker, October 4, 2011.

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• It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.

  Jacob Bernoulli

  Education, Math, Thinking

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• I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Dark, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.95, Xist Publishing

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• I don't think that witchcraft is a religion. I wish the military would rethink this decision.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Humor, Thinking

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• The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In a time period when the reasons for changes in weather were largely a mystery, people would have searched for a scapegoat in the face of deadly changes in weather patterns. 'Witches' became target for blame because there was an existing cultural framework that both allowed their persecution and suggested that they could control the weather.

  Emily Oster

  Average, Ice, Weather

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• I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people - mainly from America's Bible Belt - who complain that Harry Potter promotes Satanism or witchcraft obviously haven't got enough in their lives. Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, America, People

  "The shed where God died". Interview with Steve Meacham, www.smh.com.au. December 13, 2003.

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• Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress, my hairdresser, my makeup, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.

  Anais Nin

  Beautiful, Makeup, Thinking

  "Henry and June". Book by Anais Nin, 1986.

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• Fancy can save or kill; it hath clos'd up
  Wounds when the balsam could not, and without
  The aid of salves:--to think hath been a cure.
  For witchcraft then, that's all done by the force
  Of mere imagination.

  William Cartwright

  Thinking, Imagination, Done

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• I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Sight, Ideas, Magic

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• It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Race, Years

  H. L. Mencken (2003). “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.57, See Sharp Press

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• Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.

  Toussaint Louverture

  Unity, Stronger, Combination

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• Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Spirit

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• Unless we're talking about old-school, witchcraft-trial violence, can we please phase out the phrase 'girl crush?' While we're at it, if we can axe 'like, total girl crush' unless Total Girl Crush is the name of a fizzy soft drink, in which case I'll take two, thank you.

  Sloane Crosley

  Thank You, Crush, Girl

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• I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples' ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn't do.

  Linus Torvalds

  Ideas, Today, Incredibles

  "Reclusive Linux founder opens up". Interview with Kristie Lu Stout, edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2006.

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• And I had by now become used to the idea of witchcraft, it seemed a reasonable thing, so many things are about, at night, in Africa.

  Isak Dinesen

  Night, Ideas, Used

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Secret, Guarding

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• A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Top Gear, Faster, Cool Cars

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• If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

  Andre Malraux

  Destiny, Shapes, Ifs

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• John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.

  Rupert Hughes

  Giving Up, Choices, Easy

  Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”

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