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• Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Judging

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• To snatch the worm from the trap.

  Plautus

  Worms

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• Poetry, which is our relation to the senses, enables us to retain a living relationship to all things. It is the quickest means of transportation to reach dimensions above or beyond the traps set by the so-called realists. It is a way to learn levitation and travel in liberated continents, to travel by moonlight as well as sunlight.

  Anais Nin

  Mean, Levitation, Way

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• Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Said, Insincerity, Feels

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.110, New Victoria Publishers

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• Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

  John Dryden

  Wise, Gambling, Spiders

  John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.123

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• Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

  Storm Jameson

  Censorship, Sadistic, Form

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.70, A&C Black

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• I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Law, Common Sense, Immigration

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech At Breakfast Reception In Sligo, Ireland, www1.nyc.gov. August 22, 2006.

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• I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

  Anne Roiphe

  Family, Sex, Disappointment

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• The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

  Shulamith Firestone

  Alternatives, Classic, Revolutionary

  Shulamith Firestone (1970). “The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution”

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• The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

  Wangari Maathai

  Tree, Atmosphere, Needs

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

  Curtis Stone

  Tourists, Want, Language

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• Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

  Kimberly Elise

  Fall, Ego, Hollywood

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• I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you cant see beyond it.

  Kim Cattrall

  Hard Work, Past, Thinking

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• I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

  Bjork

  Fall, Thinking, Want

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• Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Bait, Literature

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.214, Penguin

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• The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?

  Zhuangzi

  Inspirational, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.302, Columbia University Press

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• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Nice, Heart, Guy

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

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• Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Agreement, People

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• The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Real, Educational

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• College athletics are so entrenched and enjoyed by so many people that they will never be discontinued or substantially changed. I know that. I just pity the people caught in that tender trap. And most of all, I pity those kids.

  Susan Orlean

  Kids, College, People

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• You hear peewee coaches teaching the 'trap'. What the heck are we doing teaching the 'trap'? Let the kids go, let them have fun; that's how you improve.

  Bobby Orr

  Fun, Teaching, Kids

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• If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

  Ray Bradbury

  Faith, Morning, Teaching

  "The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing". 2010.

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• Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Fall, Negativity

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Nov 12, 2010

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• Don't slip into the traps, and don't forget about your 'hood, the kids in the 'hood. Remember, you're disposable, so take advantage while you can.

  Isaac Hayes

  Kids, Remember You, Remembers You

  "New Inductees Take Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Into the Punk Era" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. March 19, 2002.

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• I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

  Meredith Monk

  Thinking, Artist, Creating

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