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  • Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

    Life   Strength   Wisdom  
  • Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery).

    Real   Driving   Computer  
  • You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem through some sort of trickery one way or another and get the shot to work, but you know when to give up.

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  • I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. . . . Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility.

  • Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced that if you follow closely the natural light of your spirit, you will see ... that all the religions in the world are only human inventions and that everything your religion teaches you and forces you to believe as supernatural and divine is at heart only error, lie, illusion and trickery.

    Atheist   Lying   Believe  
  • And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength. And many have been entrusted to our care, Commended by their usefulness to us. For instance, strength supports a savage lion; Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.

    Life   Death   Science  
  • Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below the threshold of awareness that initiated an unusual event or gave one a curious half sensed feeling that something was about to happen just before it did. The magician seeks to exploid this effect deliberately, but in doing so he must avoid doing it deliberately as it were. Conscious lust of result destroys magical effect, so trickery must be employed to annul it and to activate the subconscious.

    Feelings   Lust   Mind  
  • No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed!

    Weed   Animal   Marijuana  
  • It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell."

    Running   Answers   Hell  
  • 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.

    Thinking   Media   Evil  
    "Jack White: 'Is it fun to make music? I don't really know' - an in-depth Q&A from the vaults". Interview with Barney Hoskyns, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2012.
  • Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have to resort to such trickery to have their way with them? And why don't women quickly succumb to them, without the need for all this skill and ingenuity in conquering them? For there is no need to go to war for a castle that is already captured.

    War   Believe   Skills  
  • Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

    Two   Confusion   World  
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elizabeth Mayer, Louise Bogan, Wystan Hugh Auden (1971). “The sorrows of young Werther, and Novella”
  • Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

  • There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

    Stupid   Would Be   Fraud  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60
  • 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.

    War   Home   Hype  
  • Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery & then gets this magnificent review. Margo of course is effing & blinding all over the place. And crying. Her director rushes into her house, puts his arms around her & says, "I ran all the way". That's what I want.

    House   Directors   Roles  
  • Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

    Beauty   Half   World  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Eye   Reality   Two  
    "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.
  • Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash.

  • A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, "You used trickery." "Yes, I did," he admitted. "Are you angry with me?" She laughed again. "I don't get angry. I get even." Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.

    Horse   Riding   Used  
    Julie Garwood (2002). “Ransom”, p.313, Simon and Schuster
  • He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.

    Clever   Learning   Men  
  • If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.

    Taken   Men   Ideas  
    Linda Sue Park (2002). “A single shard”
  • We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

    Stories   Saws   Revival  
    Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket
  • Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

    Mean   Feelings   Use  
    Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.117, A&C Black
  • 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.

    Magic   Age   World  
  • 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.

    Believe   People   Magic  
  • Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

  • 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.

    Play   Energy   Process  
    Jack London (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.90, Jack London
  • Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

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