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Daily Inspiration Quote by Uri Geller

"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works"

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Name-dropping presidents and agency heads is Uri Geller's oldest trick after bending spoons: borrow institutional gravity to make the incredible feel inevitable. The line isn't trying to persuade you with evidence; it's selling you the feeling that the argument is already over. If the people with the briefing books and the security clearances are "opening their minds", then skepticism starts to look like stubbornness, not discernment. That's the intent: reposition belief as sophistication.

The subtext is a canny mix of conspiracy glamour and self-help optimism. "Psychic phenomena" gets framed not as a fringe curiosity but as a tool, something with a measurable payoff: "because they know it works". That final clause does heavy lifting. It dodges the messy question of how it works, who verified it, and under what conditions, replacing method with confidence. In entertainment terms, it's a closer, the verbal equivalent of a flourish after the reveal.

Context matters. Geller rose during the 1970s boom in New Age spirituality, parapsychology labs, and Cold War-era fascination with mind control and remote viewing. Intelligence agencies did flirt with paranormal research, and pop culture turned that flirtation into myth. Geller's quote rides that historical afterglow, laundering anecdote into authority.

There's also a savvy appeal to power: if leaders embrace psychic claims, then psychic ability isn't just real, it's strategically valuable. It's a pitch designed for an anxious era that wants shortcuts - certainty without the slog of proof, wonder without the vulnerability of admitting it's wonder.

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Geller, Uri. (2026, January 17). Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nowadays-even-presidents-vice-presidents-and-65548/

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Geller, Uri. "Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nowadays-even-presidents-vice-presidents-and-65548/.

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"Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/nowadays-even-presidents-vice-presidents-and-65548/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Uri Geller (born December 20, 1946) is a Entertainer from Israel.

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