To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.


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They kept responding to our buckets. We just had to keep playing (hard). We got some defensive stops...
RICKY HICKMAN
There's more happening in the 'papers than out on the field although there was a little bit of needl...
RICKY PONTING
I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud...
RICKY WILLIAMS
Bracken has got a great record here and he'll bowl well on the wicket.
RICKY PONTING
He's bowling 150km/h most balls. There's a very small margin for error there.
RICKY PONTING
If we can squeeze a few more runs out of the tail and then bowl well first thing in their innings it...
RICKY PONTING
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told s...
RICKY GERVAIS
So hopefully we can keep him under pressure.
RICKY PONTING
I guess it's disappointing for that kind of stuff to be coming out now,
RICKY PONTING
We played very well this week, and it was a good team performance. But I'm not sure if the West Indi...
RICKY PONTING
We're out there appealing every time we think something's out. I don't think there is anything wrong...
RICKY PONTING
I think there's a good chance that Glenn will be OK.
RICKY PONTING
Not scoring one for the whole calendar year last year was a bit disappointing but I didn't really fe...
RICKY PONTING
There was only one person in charge on the field and that was me,
RICKY PONTING
My friends said I was crazy, but L.A. is the hub of the industry. It's the epicenter of the busi...
RICKY WHITTLE
If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going ...
RICKY SCHRODER
I didn't think it would be very special. Coming back to a franchise, an organization that I worked f...
RICKY WILLIAMS
You know why beads were started, don't you? ... They were used to count your prayers.
RICKY WILLIAMS
It is the intention for the Makars' Court to grow and develop as the Scottish national literary monu...
RICKY HENDERSON
We're just trying to pick the best team for this game, first and foremost, but he's a young bloke wh...
RICKY PONTING
Around the team I would have thought I have done most things right along the way,
RICKY PONTING
I felt like I started pretty well and probably got worse as the innings went on,
RICKY PONTING
It does look like a good wicket. I think it'll be a fairly traditional Sydney cricket wicket. It'll ...
RICKY PONTING
It is always nice to win a series. We had lot of pressure in both games. Andrew and Clarke played we...
RICKY PONTING
As an individual, if you are not playing as well as you like, you are always putting a bit more pres...
RICKY PONTING
Jason just has to keep positive, keep working hard,
RICKY PONTING
It's been mentally draining. The emotions have been up and down all day but I'm feeling pretty good ...
RICKY PONTING
This England side [2004-5] have a different feel to them. They have a bit of a winning habit and win...
RICKY PONTING
We were confident of going close -- maybe not as close as it was in the end.
RICKY PONTING
Even though we've lost this game, I think we can take away as much from this game as England can. Th...
RICKY PONTING
It hurt him a lot not taking part in the last test match so he will be pretty keen to prove everybod...
RICKY PONTING
We're saying all the right things in our team meetings,
RICKY PONTING
We bit the bullet early on day one and decided to bat on that wicket, knowing it will get a bit lowe...
RICKY PONTING
It was a little bit of a thing we had to clear up from today. It wasn't an incident. There were a fe...
RICKY PONTING
He's had a pretty solid workout this morning and did a lot of running between the wickets in the net...
RICKY PONTING
We are looking at those areas, as we always do, to look for little ways that we can improve ourselve...
RICKY PONTING
I wouldn't like to think that anybody is playing for their career in this game, certainly that hasn'...
RICKY PONTING
I have never been one who has sat back and taken all the accolades when the team has gone well. I th...
RICKY PONTING
I still rank England second,
RICKY PONTING
He smashed my chin. That didn't feel too good.
RICKY PROEHL
Bubba (Stewart) was in front of me and I followed for a lap and a half and then made a clean inside ...
RICKY CARMICHAEL
I'm not settling in, the points are too close. James (Stewart) is obviously riding really well.
RICKY CARMICHAEL
All the guys in our rooms, although they're disappointed, can certainly hold their heads high and kn...
RICKY PONTING
Casey came over and apologized. I guess he made a mistake, and it's very easy to make a mistake when...
RICKY RUDD
The guys did a great job in the pits, ... We just sort of tried to stay out of trouble. We've wrecke...
RICKY RUDD
We've wrecked out of this race the last three times,
RICKY RUDD
THEY LOOK THE SAME, BUT THEY DON'T DRIVE THE SAME.
RICKY RUDD
I wouldn't want to run a road course every weekend, but I wouldn't mind seeing one or two more on th...
RICKY RUDD
I'm really sort of surprised at this run because we spent 98 percent of our time yesterday working o...
RICKY RUDD