Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.