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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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Magic is in believing yourself.If you believe in yourself you can do anything.
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It is more important to be free than to be happy.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
FOKA GOMEZ
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
LEON TROTSKY
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
LEON TROTSKY
"BELIEVE - Imagining with your mind, Believing with all your heart. Achieving with all your soul, Ma...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
GERALD F. LIEBERMAN
This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE
"The Magic Of Kindness, Can Change Lives, Including Our Own." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
Love is a more powerful force than magic. You can trick the mind and even the heart, but never the s...
NIKKI JEFFORD
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beatin...
LANGSTON HUGHES
You cant do better, be better or have better than you believe you can.
DANIEL GILMAN
I swallowed. Be strong, Valentina. The wish of a dead man is sacred. Don’t break your promise.
CORA REILLY
As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by fundin...
MARY J. RUWART
You can't force magic...but you can be prepared, rested and in balance while it is on it's way
G. BRIAN BENSON
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the avera...
GEORGE ORWELL
"Music of the heart can sooth a grief stricken soul" ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of wi...
JAMES A. OWEN
Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope f...
LAINI TAYLOR
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in...
JARED DIAMOND
Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
PAUL DAVID WASHER
Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
magic does not live in the unwilling soul.
DIANE DUANE
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
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I remember moving back into the control room in disbelief,
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Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
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She really said no to nothing. I think Tom Robbins named her. She officially changed her name to Aur...
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We wait upon finite minds to validate infinite things— this is evidence of human stupidity.
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“The beauty of the inner soul can permeate through one’s outward gestures and expressions.” ~T...
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It is interesting indeed that some people think they are right to force others into believing what t...
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I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magi...
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Most people believe in God because they think he's comforting, not because they think he's real.
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A disbelief in God does not result in a belief in nothing; disbelief in God usually results in a bel...
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I'm in disbelief. Really, it's just disbelief.
KIM INSALACO
"May the strings of love play on in your heart and soul, creating beautiful music." ~ Tom Baker
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To be relevant in business,you must keep believing everyday that you are relevant or else you will b...
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"Messages of love sent to the heart, can be music to the soul." ~ Tom Baker
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We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
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Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
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The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
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It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
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The magic of Believing;It helps the believer procure Life's best.
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Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to...
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Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who...
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‎‎"The power of words can touch the heart and sooth the soul of those we care about.” ~Tom Bak...
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This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
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Only your mind can produce fear.
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The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the ...
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You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbel...
ADAM MCKAY
FEBRIZIUM();” said Buggeroff, and the foul smell immediately disappeared as if by, well − Magic.
SORIN SUCIU
“May the Sun shine, warming your Heart, with a Love for Life, creating Happiness in your Soul!” ...
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"May the love you share with another generate energy, creating sunshine in their soul." ~ Tom Baker
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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both...
BEN OKRI
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both t...
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If you think we're waxworks," he said, "you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looke...
LEWIS CARROLL
A gap in skills and abilities reveal a golden opportunity!
ABHISHEK RATNA
Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentione...
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I...I sang," she whispered, "if that matters," and Karou felt her heart pulled to pieces. This Misbe...
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HP can't correct the systemic problems in its enterprise computing business simply by changing CEOs....
LARRY SINGER
Business is very sensitive to poor governance. If we were to calculate opportunity cost, besides the...
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"Our forever friends are those special Angels who carry a song in their heart, with love for another...
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off i...
WARREN SPAHN
We probably had some poor shot selection. We tried to force things to happen.
CURT BENGE
Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research ...
PAUL GIBBONS
I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not...
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"Soul Mates is an angel without wings, who helps bring out the best in you." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling,/ The darling of our crew.
CHARLES DIBDIN
Hope is the believe that the promised will be fulfilled.
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Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Tas...
JOHN HUTTON
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principl...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent worl...
BETTY WILLIAMS
Believing in the ego is like believing that you are the one in the mirror instead of the one looking...
JACK TYME
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both t...
NORA ROBERTS
All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger th...
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
"From soul to soul, and heart to heart. May you be blessed, I wish to impart." ~ Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
i cannot imagine traveling to earth without him' quote by Robert Wesley Miller... Rest in Peace Davi...
ROBERT WESLEY MILLER
"It’s sad when a craftsman blames his tools for his poor workmanship.” ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
When in doubt, use brute force.
KEN THOMPSON
“Be a Giver of Light sharing the sunshine in your soul, with those you love and care about, throug...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER
There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS
I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal governm...
JAMES MEREDITH
Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffet...
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Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential...
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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign...
TOM ROBBINS
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
TOM ROBBINS
Our Similarities bring us to a common ground; Our Differences allow us to be fascinated by each othe...
TOM ROBBINS
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding...
TOM ROBBINS
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will ...
TOM ROBBINS
It's been a positive thing for us. I think it's excellent.
TOM ROBBINS
What is it that separates human beings from the so-called lower animals? Well, as I see it, its exac...
TOM ROBBINS
Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon lear...
TOM ROBBINS
We had a lot of young players this season. I thought they have improved over the course of the year....
TOM ROBBINS
There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the...
TOM ROBBINS
That's for God sure. People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for ...
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Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in B...
TOM ROBBINS
Logic only gives man what he needs...Magic gives him what he wants.
TOM ROBBINS
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ...
TOM ROBBINS
When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results...
TOM ROBBINS
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
TOM ROBBINS
The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone.
TOM ROBBINS
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef
TOM ROBBINS
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
TOM ROBBINS
I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys...
TOM ROBBINS
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...
TOM ROBBINS
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th...
TOM ROBBINS
Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
TOM ROBBINS
Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
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There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS
Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
TOM ROBBINS
There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
TOM ROBBINS
If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
TOM ROBBINS
Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
TOM ROBBINS
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
TOM ROBBINS
But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
TOM ROBBINS
Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
TOM ROBBINS
I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
TOM ROBBINS
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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