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1 " Witchcraft is the attempt to gain special knowledge or power outside God. What do we mean by " special?" We mean power or knowledge that is not found or allowed by God in the natural order. "
2 " Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand. "
― Arthur Conan Doyle , The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
3 " And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of something that had happened more than five centuries ago. It did nothing to soften its rigid stance, nothing to heal wounds that it had helped to create by deliberately shunning people of other Races, and nothing to explore the possibility of other beliefs. It held its ground even in the face of hard evidence that perhaps it had misjudged and refused to consider that it was courting a danger that might destroy everyone. p96 "
― Terry Brooks , Bearers of the Black Staff (Legends of Shannara, #1)
