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• English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Gentleman, Asking

  Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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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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• The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3033, Delphi Classics

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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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• All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Mean, Entanglement, Hoover

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• Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Answers

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• Travel is the realm of the impossible adventures, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night.  It entitles you to meet interesting people, whom you would never meet, even if you laid traps or advertised for them.  Not only do you met them, but you also unmeet them, all in the space of, it often seems, a mere compacted evening.  As there is so little time, bodies in motion drop their guard and immediately get on with their stories.  Then the proverbial ships part, each to its destination, never again to brush each other's wake.

  Lawrence Millman

  Adventure, Night, Space

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• I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?

  Tennessee Williams

  Brother, Husband, Humility

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.12, Heinemann

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• How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

  David Mamet

  Greed, Wealth, Sickness

  David Mamet (2014). “Glengarry Glen Ross”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• [On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation.

  Jennifer Beals

  Fall, Thinking, Self

  Matthewsplace.com Interview, October 2009.

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• Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

  Samuel Richardson

  Self, Accusation, Applause

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Pamela Volume 2: Samuel Richardson Collections”, p.243, 谷月社

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• American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

  Michael Kors

  Fall, Weekend, Night

  "Exclusive: Michael Kors' Lifetime Achievements". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

  Phyllis Bottome

  Spring, Doctors, Mind

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• I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Media, Talking

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• An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Believe, Responsibility, Giving

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.57, Penguin

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• Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

  Maud Adams

  Ambition, Mind, Needs

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• The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

  Steven Weber

  Snakes, People, Voting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.

  John Lennon

  Music, Christian, Jesus

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.

  John Lennon

  Parenting, Doors, Healthy

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• To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.

  Wendell Johnson

  Cheese, Mouse Traps, Mice

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• What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

  Paulo Coelho

  Validation, People, Important

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 28, 2010

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• For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

  Jeff Merkley

  Long, Cards, Credit

  "Elizabeth Warren Is the Right Person for the Job" by Sen. Jeff Merkley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle.

  Seth Godin

  Friday, Media, Black

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