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tricks
«The fox has many tricks, and the hedgehog only one, but that is the best of all»
«The new guys have stepped up to the same level we, the veteran riders, are at... We're all doing the same tricks and are at the same levels so it's going to be hard for the judges to differentiate everything.»
«The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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boulevard,
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Buildings,
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Hollywood Boulevard,
obsolescence,
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sunset,
The Crowd,
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tricks
«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.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
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Writer)
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Keywords:
agent,
Big Boys,
Big Picture,
bogus,
ceased,
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fake,
idealism,
incessant,
incompetence,
Out of This World,
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strut,
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The Big Picture,
The Boys,
tricks
«Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.»
«Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.»
«Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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Keywords:
abomination,
Eke,
equivocation,
evasion,
evasions,
learnt,
mental reservation,
on the sly,
reservation,
Reservations,
sly,
tricks
«So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, / And yet anon repairs his drooping head, / And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore, / Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.»
Author: John Milton
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Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
anon,
beams,
droop,
drooping,
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flames,
forehead,
morning star,
ore,
ores,
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sinks,
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spangles,
The Morning Star,
tricks
«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»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
apparatus,
convictions,
debauch,
debauched,
debauching,
Delusions,
fuddle,
oratory,
persuasive,
practiced,
The Mental,
tricks,
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«Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.»