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• In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Government, Years

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• Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

  Glenn Beck

  Believe, Fall, Flaws

  Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe (2011). “Being George Washington: The Indispensable Man, As You've Never Seen Him”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that youll have little in the future.

  Sendhil Mullainathan

  People, Scarcity, Littles

  "Being poor changes your thinking about everything". Interview with Harold Pollack, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Nice, Lying, Black

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.

  Jacques Derrida

  Identity, Looks, Cry

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.340, Stanford University Press

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• If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Giving, Littles

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.66, Texas A&M University Press

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• I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

  Bill Austin

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Spiders, Lows

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• The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

  Robert Genn

  Education, Fall, Thinking

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• Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry for you in any way because there are too many of you and you are not cute at all. You eat too much of my forests; you are a rebellious tribe, and I will destroy you; I will poison your nests with sweet-smelling traps.

  William T. Vollmann

  Cute, Sweet, Sorry

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• You never escape the traps you spin yourself. Only a greater power can break a power, and then you're trapped again. Trapped forever so you cannot die.

  Robert Jordan

  Forever, Break, Greater Power

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.376, Macmillan

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• Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help make the big choices in life. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Best Job, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.

  Amanda Palmer

  Dark, Light, Play

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• Truth is condemned as a trap; justice is jeered at; saints are harassed as social enemies. Hence this Incarnation has come to uphold the Truth and suppress the False.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Justice, Enemy, Saint

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• We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it.

  Will Rogers

  Business, Men, Law

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.

  David Wolpe

  Prayer, Self, People

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• Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Guilt, Atheism, Stones

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• I could start this review by stating that Dumb and Dumberer lives up to its name, or by calling it stupid, moronic, and idiotic, but I believe that approach is a trap, since a movie like this might relish being the object of such bland invectives. Instead, let me try a few that can't possibly be misconstrued as twisted praise: unfunny, boring, torturous, and unwatchable. ... [N]o movie could be more aptly compared to raw sewage than this film - Directed By Troy Miller.

  James Berardinelli

  Stupid, Believe, Names

  "Dumb and Dumberer (United States, 2003)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2003.

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• The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Law, Bird

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• Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.

  James Whistler

  Art, Independent, Eye

  James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Peter Russell (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)”, p.620, Delphi Classics

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• One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. And it's an easy trap to fall into, so watch carefully for it. If your story hinges on the question, 'Will Superman be pushed so far in his battle against Lex Luthor that he'll have to kill him?', or if your big cliffhanger moment is, 'Wow, is Spider-Man really dead this time?', then I understand Food Lion is hiring.

  Mark Waid

  Book, Fall, Men

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• All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

  William Blake

  Goodness, Wholesome Food, Caught

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.178, Pearson Education

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• I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.

  Lee Trevino

  Golf, Mexican

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• Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Different, Originality

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• When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.

  Jackie Stewart

  Running, Weekend, Errors

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