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Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.

Michael O'Brien

Imagination Evil Temptation Project

There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'

Good People Down Person

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

Nature History Storm Understand

I haven't done as much proper travelling as I'd like to have done. However, I know how important the weather is for my mood and spirits.

Weather Mood Important Know

Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.'

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

Hope Fire Together Musicians

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

J. Carter Brown

Music Poetry Like Visual

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Whitley Strieber

Christmas Me Better Grandfather

Fashion responds to the economic climate by providing a way to lift a woman's spirits.

Catherine Malandrino

Woman Fashion Way Lift

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Elisabeth Harnois

Work Good Me Gym

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

Life People Think Hide

I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.

Catherine Crowe

Time Great Step Think

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.

Relationship Time You People

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

Nature Joy Language New

Music is not man's invention, but his heritage from the blessed spirits.

Tomas Luis de Victoria

Music Man Blessed Heritage

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