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There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest… — Alan Moore
Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds… — Frederic Farrar
"I do not believe that Jesus, at the end of his earthly sojourn, returned to God by ascending in any literal sense into a heaven… — John Shelby Spong
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs… — Prince Charles
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan
When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to… — Oprah Winfrey
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to make and would… — David Cronenberg
The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all… — Tony Robbins
Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot… — Catherine Keener
It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law. — Mel White
Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry. — Mel White
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere; perhaps in this… — Roland Barthes
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream. — Raf Simons
Never let failure discourage you. Every time you get to the base of a mountain (literal or metaphorical), you're presented with a new opportunity to… — Alison Levine
I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then… — Cornell Woolrich
The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life — Ma Jian
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and… — Bo Burnham
Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there… — Jonathan Haidt
Movies are too literal. — E L Doctorow
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what… — Walter Pater
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven,… — Florence King
When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life. — Victoria Moran
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can… — Julie Taymor
When our intellect has shaken off its many opinions about created things, then the inner principle of truth appears clearly to it, providing it with… — Maximus the Confessor
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from… — R. D. Laing

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