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• Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

  Kim Harrison

  Jobs, Fall, Writing

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• Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Heart, Gun, People

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Flames, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Hey, the bait is here. Get in Quebecers, get in the lobster trap, and then we'll close the door. And you'll have a referendum no matter what.

  Philippe Couillard

  Doors, Bait, Lobster

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• The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Philosophy, People, Mind

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• There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Mistake, Investing, Values

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• Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

  Amelie Nothomb

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Fall, Talking, Worry

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• Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Misery, Hinduism

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• The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

  Tommy Lee

  Wise, Animal, Two

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• Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

  Steve Pavlina

  Fall, Skills, Thought Provoking

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• There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent a significant portion of infrared radiation from escaping into space.

  George W. Bush

  Escaping, Space, Earth

  "President Bush Announces Global Warming Initiatives". CNN Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2001.

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• I got myself good this morning too. I did my pushups in the nude, I didn't see the mouse trap.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Good Morning, Humor

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• I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the angel said. This is a castle of darkness for the angel and I alone. Only within this yielding gloom can I lament the misfortune that has rained down all around me, only here am I permitted to scorn and pity the ugliness, the filthiness of how I smile and pretend at being pure in the light of day.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Angel, Light, Darkness

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• Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.

  Yvan Audouard

  Honesty, Lying

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• The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Fame

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• Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.

  Robert Glaser

  Player, Reality, Doors

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• Like an animal caught in a trap, trying to gnaw off its own leg, a woman who seeks abortion is trying to escape a desperate situation by an act of violence and self-loss. Abortion is not a sign that women are free, but a sign that they are desperate.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Loss, Animal, Desperate Situations

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Men, Artist

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• Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

  Tom Brokaw

  Real, Thinking, Names

  "New Again: Tom Brokaw". Interview with Gale Lopez, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2015.

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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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• One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

  Saul Bellow

  Freedom, Cutting, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.301, Penguin

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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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• The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Focus, Reverse, Sucker

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.55, Random House

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• The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Toil, Our Love, Ruins

  "Eugene Onegin". Book by Alexander Pushkin, 1833.

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