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• The trick to writer's block is to sack up and write through it, you see.

  Jeph Jacques

  Block, Writing, Writer's Block

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• It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

  Erick Erickson

  Racism, Politics, Lasts

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• The "burning bush" was not a miracle. It was a test. God wanted to find out whether or not Moses could pay attention to something for more than a few minutes. When Moses did, God spoke. The trick is to pay attention to what is going on around you long enough to behold the miracle without falling asleep. There is another world, right here within this one, whenever we pay attention.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Fall, Long, Miracle

  Lawrence Kushner (2016). “God Was in This Place & I, i Did Not Know, 25th Anniversary Edition: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate Meaning”, p.27, Jewish Lights Publishing

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• I am pleased with the race and happy with fourth position. It was a real shame for the team that Felipe had an issue at the start. It was a lonely race but the final 20 laps were very tough. Sebastian was quicker than me, and closed up behind very fast, but the fight was really good fun. I know a few tricks that can really help to defend and they all worked today, and I am delighted to come out on top today.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Lonely, Fun, Real

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• Well, to tell you truth, I have learned a long time ago that the trick when doing a debate, any kind of debate, is to just turn off the judgment switch in my head.

  Jim Lehrer

  Long, Kind, Debate

  "The GQ+A with Jim Lehrer". Interview with Luke Zaleski, www.gq.com. October 15, 2012.

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• The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to realize the trick time is playing, and that unless you do something about it, the passage of time is nothing but the encroachment of the horrible banality of the past on the pure future. The past devours the future like a tape recorder, converting pure possibility into banality. The present is the tape head, the mouth of time. Then where is the mystery and why bother kicking through the ashes? Because there is a clue in the past.

  Walker Percy

  Time, Lying, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lancelot”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.

  Benji Durden

  Training, Eccentric, Way

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• Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment options. The trick is to GET to the long term. Think in terms of 5 years, 10 years and longer. Do your planning and asset allocation ahead of time. Choose a portion of your assets to invest in the stock market - and stick with it! Yes, the bad times will come, but over the truly long term, the good times will win out - and I hope the lessons from 2008 will help get you there to enjoy them.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• Trading is a waiting game. You sit, you wait, and you make a lot of money all at once. Profits come in bunches. The trick when going sideways between home runs is not to lose too much in between.

  Michael Covel

  Running, Home, Games

  Michael Covel (2011). “Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns”, p.81, FT Press

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• Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Night, Imagination

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 7

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• Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

  June Jordan

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Party, Character

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• Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Simple, Knack, Illusion

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “Works”, p.179

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• Suicide is no more than a trick played on the calendar.

  Tom Stoppard

  Suicide, Calendars

  Tom Stoppard (1996). “Tom Stoppard: Plays”

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• The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

  James Fallows

  Design, Feelings, Google

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• The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

  Robert Breault

  Writing, Aphorism, Periods

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• The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

  Robert Breault

  Play, Effort, Fiddle

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• It’s all risk. And if it isn’t, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right for you, a risk that doesn’t take you so far out of your own identity that it’s not a you that you recognize who’s doing the writing.

  Jim Krusoe

  Real, Writing, Risk

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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?

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse, War, Middle Management

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• Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Vices, Looks, Dare

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.121

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• I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Betrayal, Party

  Grover Cleveland (1892). “The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland”

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• The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Boys, Community

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.64, Grove Press

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• One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

  John Steinbeck

  Pay, Too Much, Payment

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

  William Saroyan

  Dirty, People, Comedian

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• It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.

  Mary Blakely

  Home, Compelling Reason, World

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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