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• How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Heart, Air, Judging

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.62, Tuttle Publishing

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• Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Listening, Ears, Fields

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• Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

  Henry Ford

  Winning, Class, Two

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

  Storm Jameson

  Live In The Present, Really Living, Thousand

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• The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

  Martin Gardner

  Magic, Trying, Doe

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• The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

  Robert Breault

  Order, Done, Lists

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• The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're going to discover again and again and again. Nothing is what we thought. I can say that with great confidence. Emptiness is not what we thought. Neither is mindfulness or fear. Compassion––not what we thought. Love. Buddha nature. Courage. These are code words for things we don't know in our minds, but any of us could experience them. These are words that point to what life really is when we let things fall apart and let ourselves be nailed to the present moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Compassion, Mind

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• The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

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• Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

  Wyatt Earp

  Mean, Men, Needs

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• I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.

  Steven Morrissey

  Teenage, Thinking, Doors

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• I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I think it went out with the trash the next day.

  Robin Hobb

  Halloween, Cat, Writing

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• I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Doors, Other Worlds

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.

  Adrian Beltre

  Trying, Balls, Kind

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• Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.

  Chris Hedges

  Games, Class, Mirrors

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• When one has shot down one's first, second or third opponent, then one begins to find out how the trick is done.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Done, Opponents, Firsts

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.93, Pen and Sword

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• I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Mean, Curves, Flying

  Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.134, Pen and Sword

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• It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

  Bill Hicks

  Dog, Cards, Card Tricks

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• Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.

  Stephen King

  Book, Reading, Opportunity

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

  Tom Robbins

  Typewriters, Looks, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.10, Bantam

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• I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a kind of country trick, taking a rib out of a man's side in a trance.

  David Attenborough

  Country, Men, Years

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• But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

  Cesare Pavese

  Lying, Mean, Hiding

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• We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

  John M. Ford

  Debt, Pay, Borrowed Time

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• If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Magic, Knows, Ifs

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

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• Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks.

  Vittorio Emanuele Orlando

  Oratory, Littles, Prostitution

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• People are more than you think they are. And they're less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two.

  Michael Cunningham

  Lying, Thinking, Two

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