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Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -- Benjamin Franklin
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Little by little does the trick. -- Aesop
You cannot teach an old dog new tricks -- William Camden
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. -- Dorothy Parker
A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech. -- Ingrid Bergman
The trick is: you have to feel good for no reason. -- Richard Bandler
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself. -- Daniel Dennett
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand -- William Congreve
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. -- Ingrid Bergman
The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low. -- Richard Carlson
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. -- Henry David Thoreau
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you. -- Wendy Mass
You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason -- Richard Bandler
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? -- Albert Einstein
Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick. -- Steve Bull
I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a two-shilling piece to a bit of cotton, then pull it away as they went to grab it. -- Jo Brand
If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences. -- Henry Hazlitt
Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose. -- Neale Donald Walsch
Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick. -- Pema Chodron
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that. -- Heather Morris
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest. -- Benjamin Franklin
Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent. -- Sylvia Plath
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks. -- Shaun White
No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will. -- Richard Simmons
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. -- Vernon Law
Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks. -- Colm Keaveney
Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks. -- Eddie Redmayne
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking. -- Nancy Gibbs
The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome. -- Marco Tempest
If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks. -- Leo Burnett
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. -- Edsger Dijkstra
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see. -- Muhammad Yunus
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. -- Julio Cortazar
My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I'm doing my own. -- Alexa Chung
The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected. -- Brad Bird
Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible. -- David Ayer
Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks. -- Clint Eastwood
I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer. -- Sergio Aguero
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before. -- Dave Brubeck
Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets. -- Josef Albers
Red certainly is the family color. From my mother and my grandmother, I've learned a lot of little tricks - the significance of color and lipstick being one of them. I started skating when I was eight years old, and my mom did my makeup for me back then. -- Gracie Gold
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror. -- Rob Manuel
My beauty tricks revolve around eyes. For the early morning shoots, I pop eye pads in the freezer the night before, and when I take them out in the morning they are already cold and active and are great under my eyes. I keep my eye pads right next to my red velvet Ben & Jerry's in the freezer. -- Christine Teigen
It's much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won't keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don't know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we've got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, 'Is this it? Are we still relevant?' -- Bono
Movies are like magic tricks. -- Jeff Bridges
I've had dreams about tricks. -- Shaun White
Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic. -- Dick Christian
Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks. -- Eloisa James
Hindsight plays tricks on our minds. -- Jeremy Siegel
You have to find your own tricks! -- Dharma Mittra
Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks. -- Mason Cooley
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. -- Joseph Conrad
Old dogs lives longer by learning new tricks -- Constance Chuks Friday
They do tricks even I can't figure out. -- Harry Houdini
Signori has all the tricks up his book. -- Ray Wilkins
I do not employ tricks when I attack. -- Max Immelmann
To me, politics is a pile of tricks. -- Tracy Morgan
It is hard to teach an old dog tricks. -- William Camden
I've done all my tricks. I'm tired of myself. -- Sandra Bullock
An old dog lives longer by learning new tricks -- Constance Chuks Friday
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. -- William Shakespeare
Of course, in all magic tricks theres a secret. -- Lene
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks. -- Michel Onfray
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow. -- Man Ray
Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret. -- Lene Hau
Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks. -- Ernest Hemingway
During weight cutting your mind plays tricks on you. -- Dorian Yates
Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something. -- Buzz Bissinger
Oratory is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks. -- Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes. -- Lipman Bers
An old dog lives longer when it learns new tricks -- Constance Chuks Friday
If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic. -- Thomas Bangalter
Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks. -- Carson McCullers
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks. -- Jean de La Fontaine
When I look at tricks, I look at Michael Vick. -- Dan Marino
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting. -- Derren Brown
The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy... -- Buckshot
Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks. -- Lorrie Moore
The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic. -- Bernard Cornwell
Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant. -- David Levithan
Jazz is not a 'form' but a collection of tags and tricks. -- Ernest Newman
The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks. -- Jonathan Gruber
For skills and tricks, Ronaldinho was the best player I've played with. -- Edgar Davids
Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style. -- Stacy London
Hey, Vader, keep your Jedi mind tricks to yourself. That hurt! (Jesse) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Disappearing act? That's a magic trick, isn't it? I like magic tricks! -- Kate Bush
I'm only 42, and I've got a lot more tricks up my sleeve. -- Van Jones
One of the tricks of this business is, keep your losses down. -- Walter Schloss
I'll learn how to rest, though. I can still learn new tricks. -- Roxane Gay
Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions. -- Anthony Kiedis
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. -- Richard Adams
Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces. -- Stephen King
Worrying, obsessing, and controlling are illusions. They are tricks we play on ourselves. -- Melody Beattie
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature... and so full of tricks. -- Queen Victoria
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. -- Steven Millhauser
I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks. -- Chen Guangbiao
But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team. -- Cristiano Ronaldo
History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead. -- Voltaire
Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that. -- Dawn Angelique
Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in. -- Joseph Addison
The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people. -- Daniel Pinkwater
What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by. -- John Christopher
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me. -- William Sanderson
Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it. -- Drummond Money-Coutts
Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable. -- Ann-Marie MacDonald
Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. -- John French Sloan
Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering. -- Jack Ma
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere -- Andy Hertzfeld
Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks. -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion. -- Guru Nanak
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere. -- Andy Hertzfeld
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. -- Bram Stoker
It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about. -- Adam Ant
Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score. -- Ehab Atalla
Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. -- Ben Marcus

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