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Constantine: Gods and Demons are about to wage war in Starling City. You'll need magic to overcome the dark days ahead mate.
Green Arrow: You expect me to believe magic is real?
Constantine: The Lazarus Pit brought your sister back to life. How do you think it did that?
Green Arrow: ...really cool water that heals people in a way science can't explain?
Constantine: I want you to go look up the meaning of 'magic' and then get back to me on your current belief structure.

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Galadriel: And you? For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem also to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel.

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Martha Jones: But is it real, though? I mean, witches, black magic and all that, it's real?
The Doctor: Course it isn't! ... looks like witchcraft, but it isn't. Can't be... There's such a thing as psychic energy, but a human couldn't channel it like that. Not without a generator the size of Taunton and I think we'd have spotted that.

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Jones: It serves as a reminder that the Court was founded on a union between technological and etheric design.
Antimony: Etheric design?
Jones: Processes unexplained by the science of man.

"Magic is just the idiot's word for science."
Dr. Tiberius Shark, The Non-Adventures of Wonderella

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