If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on a...ny excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era,--then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man with lantern: Who are you? Captain: The Flying Cloud. 220 days out of New York and 50 days trying to find your blasted ha...rbor. Man with lantern: Nobody asked you to come. Captain: Got anything in this hog-end of the world except fog? Man with lantern: Sure, we've got gold, fountains of gold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Magic is akin to science in that it always has a definite aim intimately associated with human instincts, needs, and pursuits. The... magic art is directed towards the attainment of practical aims. Like other arts and crafts, it is also governed by a theory, by a system of principles which dictate the manner in which the act has to be performed in order to be effective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous..., in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child's future. A child's self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from... friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Through light-obliterating garden foliage what magic drum? Down limb and breast or down that glimmering belly move his mouth ...and sinewy tongue. What from the forest came? What beast has licked its young?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic un...conscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one sing...le deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer's apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »