Incantations Quotes

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The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… — Walter Lippmann
Science is simply a logical process of discovering truths about the world we live in; the illusion is that science is some sort of a… — Robert Todd Carroll
Negative things you tell yourself are inCANTations, turn them into inCANtations. — Tony Robbins
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods.… — Mahathir Mohamad
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom… — Galileo Galilei
A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. — Sophocles
Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to… — Claude M. Bristol
... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and have been encouraged… — James Randi
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been,… — Anne Rice
Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all… — Marcus Aurelius
Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait… — Epictetus
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions.… — Ezra Pound
Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject… — Christopher Hitchens
There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice… — Bertrand Russell
Rolling my trousers down to expose the upper part of my buttocks and having a knife pressed up and down my spine by a Russian… — Jonathan Dimbleby
There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science… — Severus Snape

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