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“All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance,” Ortega responded. “A magician is someone who can do something you don’t know how to do. All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.”

— Jack L. Chalker Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977)

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To tell the truth, the only thing more exhausting than doing something is doing nothing at all.

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I remembered him as one hell of a womanizer—particularly for a mathematician.

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You can’t be a nonconformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

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And, of course, men have just as many problems and hang-ups as women. The grass isn’t greener, just different.

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I found that the rich whom I’d envied dreamed of greater riches, and that power came not from obeying the law but from not getting caught.

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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