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We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. -- Kate Chopin
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home. -- Major Owens
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose. -- Jack White
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent. -- Joseph Joubert
A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail. -- Charlie Munger
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. -- Robert Higgs
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings. -- Erich Fromm
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash. -- Leo Burnett
Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. -- Francoise Sagan
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect. -- Leo Tolstoy
Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery. -- Jack London
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'. -- Emma Goldman
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does not, if it is charged with "ideals," it is merely a variety of romantic fiction, although it may not be recognized as such. -- Revilo P. Oliver
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment. -- Emma Goldman
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility. -- Dean Koontz
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. -- Max Ehrmann
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide. -- Khalil Gibran
I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. -- Drew Barrymore
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. -- Criss Angel
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality. -- Francoise Sagan
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with. -- Pat Barker
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this. -- Richard P. Feynman
A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent. -- Paulo Coelho
No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed! -- Matthew McConaughey
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. -- David Starr Jordan
Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery). -- John Landis
It's in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein. -- Seneca the Younger
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't. -- Angus Wilson
It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell." -- Ari Marmell
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards. -- Robert Jordan
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants. -- Rumi
After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it. -- Osamu Dazai

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