"Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express."

-- Susanne Katherina Langer

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“I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.”
“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”

Source : William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.111
“Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.”

Source : "Dictionary of South African Quotations". Book by Jennifer Crwys-Williams, Penguin Books, p. 53, 1994.
“O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.”
“I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.”

Source : Remark in vice-presidential debate, 5 Oct. 1988
“Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.”
“The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.”

Source : Mary Cassatt, Nancy Mowll Mathews (1984). “Cassatt and her circle: selected letters”, Abbeville Pr
“Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.”

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