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“There is a magic power in your own hands. Take your vital decisions-they may be grave and momentous and far-reaching in their consequences. Think a hundred times before you take any decision, but once a decision is taken, stand by it as one man.”

Thinking Men May Hands Decision Taken Magic Hundred Consequence Graves Reaching One Man Magic Powers

Author:Fatima Jinnah

“Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!”

“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”

“If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.”

People Ifs Inspirational Years Long Has Beens Seems Today Able Magic Amount Hundred Years Ago All Things Distance Flying Granted Data Long Distance Transmit Oracles

Author:Elon Musk

“You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of the one hudred and forty days of school so far." So thirty-one might be the magic number?" Principal Reed and Raven”

Said Might School Used Numbers Magic Hundred Sick Thirty Forty Principal Files Reeds Ravens Sick Days

Author:Ellen Schreiber

“A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.”

Years Differences Magic Hundred Years Ago Medicine

Author:Joanne Harris

“Egypt is the First Nome. New York is the twenty-first. What’s the last one, the Three-hundred-and-sixtieth?” “That would be Antarctica,” Zia said. “A punishment assignment. Nothing there but a couple of cold magicians and some magic penguins.” “Magic penguins?” “Don’t ask.”

Firsts Said Would Be Lasts Three Asks Magic New York Cold Couple Hundred Twenties Punishment Egypt Magician Assignments Penguins Antarctica

Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

Source: The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid

“There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.”

Writing Mean Said Two Hard Inspiration Secret Magic Talent Hard Work Ten Percent Hundred Tired Bored Persistence Weary Ninety Fever

Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

“'It’s, like, one of them drug dealer boats,' Vic says, looking through his magic sight. 'Five guys on it. Headed our way.' He fires another round. 'Correction. Four guys on it.' Boom. 'Correction, they’re not headed our way anymore.' Boom. A fireball erupts from the ocean two hundred feet away. 'Correction. No boat.'”

Way Two Guy Fire Five Four Magic Feet Drug Ocean Hundred Sight Rounds Boat Dealer Corrections Drug Dealers

Author:Neal Stephenson

“She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as you, September. More, no doubt. And I know a secret you do not: I am not the villain. I am no dark lord. I am the princess in this tale. I am the maiden, with her kingdom stolen away. And how may a princess remain safe and protected through centuries, no matter who may assail her? She sleeps. For a hundred years, for a thousand. Until her enemies have all perished and the sun rises over her perfect, innocent face once more.”

“I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.”

People I Can Night Girl Magic Special Talent Thousand Ordinary Hundred Lifetime One Night Ordinary Life Other Girl Special Talents

Author:Lisa Kleypas