However, hotels around the Rtanj mountain in Serbia, a site rumoured to have magical powers, were booked out for the big date.

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Taking that world and trying to shoehorn it into a world where flying aliens shoot heat beams out of their eyes, magical princesses have powers and gifts given to them by mythologial gods, with monsters invading Earth from outer space, is just not going to work.

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Partly things go wrong because of magical plot devices that allow The Governor to have super powers of detection and zombie fighting.

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We need to remember this structure because innovation is being discussed today as if the speaker just discovered something rare, something with the same magical powers that the oil of a snake was supposed to have over aching joints.

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So far, these efforts have perpetuated or even exacerbated the problem, because almost all of them simply reinforce our beliefs about the magical disinhibiting powers of alcohol.

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