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• The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Biblical, America, Should Have

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• I'd trapped myself in a script.... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

  David James Duncan

  Pages, Scripts, Unwritten

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• The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Drug, United States, Mexico

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• Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

  Charlie Brooker

  Crush, Self, Circles

  "Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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• I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, People, Would Be

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• I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

  Elayne Boosler

  Funny, Inspiring, Women

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• Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

  John Cusack

  Real, Flip, Nightmare

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• We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

  Anna Freud

  Past, Waiting

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• I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

  Mick Jagger

  Song, Past, Forget

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• I don't like the trappings of stardom. I wear the shoes and the Dolce & Gabbana, because I'm told to. But I'm not trapped by it.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Shoes, Stardom

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• Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspirational, Fear, Past

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• I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

  John Lydon

  Song, Thinking, Islands

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Ideas, Giving, Important

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• Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

  Daniel Handler

  Hilarious, Two, Three

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• PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

  Edward Tufte

  Style, Cartoon, Tools

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• One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Thinking, Order

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• There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

  Don DeLillo

  Stars, Light, Shining

  Don DeLillo (2004). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• - Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Amber, Matter

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Ambition, Understanding, Soul

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.

  Douglas Adams

  Mother, Men, Space

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.80, Del Rey

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• I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

  Libba Bray

  Wish, Want, Should

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Two, Brain, Would Be

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, Mad, Acting

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.168, Macmillan

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• Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Nice, Fall

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.5, Hachette UK

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