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My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.
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Martin McDonagh
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1970
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Pure
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
Tom Stoppard
Life
Family
Me
You
Sense
Neighbour
Kin
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Would
Give
Take
Generosity
Between
Beyond
Obviously
Make
Children
Them
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Plate
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Extended
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
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You
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Whole
It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S Truman
Work
Time
You
Political
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Confuse
Trick
Plain
Convince
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
Ellen Goodman
Life
Relationship
Vision
Job
Value
Stage
Recognize
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Over
Without
Leaving
Go
Exit
Denying
Graceful
Begins
Means
Let Go
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Simple
Will
Men
Trick
Tricked
Find
He
Another
Readily
Always
Yield
Moment
Who
Suffer
Desires
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury
Beautiful
Ourselves
Out
Trick
Constantly
Stuff
Over
Knowing
How
Cups
Quietly
Tip
Being
Filled
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
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Miserable
Ourselves
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Same
Either
Amount
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton
Integrity
Simple
Nothing
Trick
Himself
Another
Than
Duplicity
Straightforward
Full
Who
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