All these little tricks are just that tricks. But, because they are tricks that you play on yourself, they can make you feel in control rather than manipulated.

He's doing tricks here, dance tricks, that probably no six year old in history ever managed before.

None of them are tricks.

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Well, some really nice little tricks.

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Tom enjoys playing tricks on me.

Old dogs can learn new tricks.

Sami tried some easy magic tricks.

It's almost like they're practicing magic tricks.

Monkeys can learn a lot of tricks.

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But these are tricks around the margins.

She would often play tricks on me.

Behind the scenes accounting tricks were accompanied by behind the scenes political tricks. Citizens, unsurprisingly, complained about the declining legitimacy of EU institutions.

The tricks of magic have one special element.

MT In that respect, magic tricks are like jokes.

The same thing happens when people watch magic tricks.

And they get up to all sorts of tricks.

So when the husband saw Joseph's shirt torn from behind he exclaimed Surely, this is one of the tricks of you women your tricks are indeed great.

So when the husband saw Joseph's shirt torn from behind he exclaimed Surely, this is one of the tricks of you women your tricks are indeed great.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction.

I know the ropes now, know what the tricks are.

So the different tricks that Matthieu Ricard and I and others know about increasing the amount of positive emotion in your life are 15 to 20 percent tricks, getting more of it.

This is a smart academic doing a little bit of tricks here.

So I thought, forget the rock opera, forget the bombast, my usual tricks.

Magic tricks, I think they're instructions, sort of like recipes no copyright protection.

No foldouts, no tricks just a book that isn't open the whole way.

I walked into the New York Times offices and did card tricks to everybody.

And there's other genetic tricks you can play in order to get light activated cells.

I use a lot of tricks, which means that sometimes I have to lie to you.

This little design experiment that was a small office here knew a few other tricks as well.

Somehow I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

(Allah) knows of (the tricks) that deceive with the eyes, and all that the hearts (of men) conceal.

We know that Heather, his sister Heather, 14 years old, is turning tricks up here to support her drug habit.

Living the high life mezzanine floor and clever design tricks have transformed this small Earls Court flat into a spacious home

So with some friends we started to do different tricks, like for example this jump here, I jumped from a paraglider.

As a matter of fact, I think a lot of my design ideas come from mistakes and tricks of the eye.

They were trying to put our airline out of business, and they launched what's become known as the dirty tricks campaign.

Clearly, Ak Zhol used accusations of impropriety as a weapon against the government parties. Indeed, many opposition groups engaged in dirty tricks.

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

What I've done for you here, I developed a lot of those tricks and I put the choreography together, but they're not original techniques.

One of the tricks you have to do is to figure out how to deliver these genes to the cells that you want and not all the other neighbors.

As Ariely points out, general advice is generally useless. Individuals need their own tricks, and each person knows best what will work for them if they think about it.