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• Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Yield

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• How not to choose is the whole art of religion, how to drop into a choicelessness. But remember, don`t choose choicelessness! Otherwise, listening to me or to Sosan or Krishnamurti you will become enchanted by the word `choicelessness.` Your mind will say, "This is very good. Then ecstasy is possible and much bliss will happen to you if you become choicelessness. Then the door of the mysteries of life will be opened." The mind feels greedy. The mind says, "Okay, so I will choose choicelessness." The door is closed, only the label is changed, but you have fallen a victim of the old trick.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Doors, Listening

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• The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

  Man Ray

  Today, Tomorrow

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• Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.

  Peg Kehret

  Funny, Dog, Home

  Peg Kehret (1988). “Encore!: More Winning Monologs for Young Actors : 63 More Honest-to-life Monologs for Teenage Boys and Girls”, Meriwether Pub

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• Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

  Tennessee Williams

  Truth, Opposites, Giving

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Broken, Tea, Add

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• Life has played some funny tricks on me and taken me on a wild ride. How did I ever get into this wonderful mess that is my life?

  Bo Derek

  Taken, Wonderful, Wild Ride

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• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• There is only one object on earth that frightens me: a physicist working on a new trick.

  Rex Stout

  Earth, Physicist, Objects

  Rex Stout (1975). “A Family Affair: A Nero Wolfe Novel”, Viking Adult

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• Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks!

  Kate Bush

  Magic, Magic Tricks, Disappear

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

  Audie Murphy

  Teacher, Couple, War

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• He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Forever, Too Much, Impossible

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

  Richard Burton

  Dream, Memories, Men

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• The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.

  Dick Cavett

  Writing, People, Able

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• We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

  Paul Newman

  Life, Running, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Hands, White, Differences

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• I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life is to do things that are fun all the time.

  Warren Buffett

  Fun, Cost Of Living, Doe

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• The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Women, Thinking

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• The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

  Brother Ali

  Art, Keys, Use

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.

  John le Carre

  Believe, Two, America

  2003 In Time, 27 Jan.

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• The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Magic, Doe, Absence

  Bernard Cornwell (1999). “Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur”, p.84, Macmillan

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• There's not much difference between a fantasist and a visionary. We all have dreams and without dreams in business, I don't believe you can be successful. The trick is to turn them into reality.

  Theo Paphitis

  Dream, Believe, Successful

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• I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

  Rich Sommer

  Simple, Hands, Balance

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• There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Men, Hands

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• No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale.

  Honore de Balzac

  Dog, Art, Wind

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