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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.
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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
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Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p.96 -
That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
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The real trick is to make the moves in your head first, as a way of testing them out.
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
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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.
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The trick is to love somebody... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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The trick of 'Up' was to balance the sad stuff with the silly stuff.
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The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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