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• When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Apples, Intellectual, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.239

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• When in doubt, win the trick.

  Edmond Hoyle

  Winning, Doubt, When In Doubt

  Hoyle's Games Improved, ed. Charles Jones (1790).

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• Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

  Storm Jameson

  Success, Men, Thinking

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• May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Mean, Army, Hype

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• There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

  Mark Twain

  Upset, Oratory, World

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

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• In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

  Charles Dickens

  Promise, Tragedy, Add

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• Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Pain, Issues

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• Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Achievement, Promise

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• The trick is to never lose hope!

  Tupac Shakur

  Anticipation, Never Lose Hope, Loses

  Song: 16 on Death Row, 1997

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• The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.

  Paul LePaul

  Magic, Way, Direct

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• It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery.

  Jean Hugard

  Magic, Cards, Levels

  Jean Hugard, Frederick Braué (2012). “Expert Card Technique”, p.573, Courier Corporation

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• Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it.

  Rene Lavand

  People, Perfect, Magic

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• "Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hate, Magic, Three

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Collected Short Stories”, p.329, Random House

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• Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.

  Dick Christian

  Magic, Magician

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• A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

  Derren Brown

  Kids, Thinking, People

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• Never apologize, it's all part of the trick.

  Harry Lorayne

  Magic, Apologizing

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• At the finish of the effect look at the audience: if they have gone white in the face, froth at the mouth with excitement,shake at the knees or get down on the floor and salaam you-it is quite a fair trick.

  Tony Corinda

  White, Magic, Looks

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• It wasn't just about doing tricks. It's about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. Its about amazing the audience as well as moving them.

  David Copperfield

  Moving, Magic, Special

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• Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick.

  Michael Ammar

  Magic, Cards, Select

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• Well, if you're going to watch that close, the trick is off.

  Carl Ballantine

  Magic, Watches, Wells

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• A Magician is not a Magician because he knows tricks, but because he knows Magic - the principles, the fundamentals.

  Harlan Tarbell

  Magic, Principles, Fundamentals

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• You can never say all the tricks have been done. Someone always shows you something you didn't know. Every year you think, 'Gee, I didn't think you could do that'.

  Landon Curt Noll

  Inspiring, Business, Thinking

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• I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great?

  Joel McHale

  Halloween, School, Kids

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

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• This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.

  Danny Elfman

  Halloween, Towns, Our Town

  Song: This Is Halloween, 1993

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• Selling concerns itself with the tricks and techniques of getting people to exchange their cash for your product. It is not concerned with the values that the exchange is all about. And it does not, as marketing invariable does, view the entire business process as consisting of a tightly integrated effort to discover, create, arouse and satisfy customer needs.

  Theodore Levitt

  Views, People, Effort

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