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• A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Journey, Men, Cities

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• It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Lying, Communication, Feelings

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

  Francis Chan

  Fall, Thought Provoking, Study

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.382, David C Cook

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• [Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial visions that focus energy effectively often address immediate problems. What matters is engagement in the service of a larger purpose rather than lofty aspirations that paralyze action. Indeed, it's a dangerous trap to believe that we can pursue onlhy "great visions."

  Peter Senge

  Believe, Mean, What Matters

  Peter Senge, C. Scharmer (2011). “Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations and Society”, p.127, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening, so confront that. Look it square in the eye without flinching. When you are having a bad time, examine that experience, observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn its mechanics. The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built. You do this by taking the thing apart piece by piece. The trap can’t trap you if it has been taken to pieces. The result is freedom.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Taken, Eye, Buddhism

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivation, Ideas, Forget

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.111, Harper Collins

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• You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.

  Carlo Gambino

  Strong, Smart, Scare

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• Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Freedom, Law, Liberty

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.

  Bob Hope

  Lying, Golf, Caddies

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• Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

  Bob Hope

  Hope, Golf, Games

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• Choice is bondage, choicelessness freedom. The moment you choose something, you have fallen in the trap of the world. If you can resist the temptation to choose, if you can remain choicelessly aware, the trap disappears on its own accord, because when you don`t choose you don`t help the trap to be there - the trap is also created by your choice.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Temptation, World

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• Don't choose. If you choose, you will be in the quagmire. Don't choose! A choiceless awareness is the goal. Just remain aloof; don't choose. The moment you choose, you have fallen into the trap of the world, or into the trap of the mind.

  Rajneesh

  Goal, Mind, Quagmire

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• It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Docks

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• I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Children, Military

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• Finally you come to a point where you almost know it all. You are very wise. You are very pure... except for the fact that you may well have gotten caught in the last trap... the desire to know it all and still be you, "the knower." This is an impossibility. For all of the finite knowledge does not add up to the infinite. In order to take the final step, the knower must go. That is, you can only BE it all, but you can't know it all. The goal is non-dualistic - as long as there is a "knower" and "known" you are in dualism.

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  Ram Dass

  Wise, Spiritual, Order

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• No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

  Guy Finley

  Spiritual, Ruts, Impossible

  Guy Finley (2010). “The Courage to Be Free: Discover Your Original Fearless Self”, p.99, Weiser Books

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• And remember one fundamental law of life. If they are hostile, they have hate towards us, sooner or later they are going to fall into my trap, because hate can turn into love very easily, just as love can become hate very easily.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Hate, Life Changing

  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Osho (1986). “The Last Testament: Interviews with the World Press”, Rajneesh Foundation International

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• Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

  Bea Arthur

  Animal, Hands, Years

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• It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism and have led men to give their lives for things which make life worthwhile, can also become a trap, the means of destroying the very things men desire to uphold.

  Norman Angell

  War, Mean, Men

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• To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Birthday, Wall, Years

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• It's not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It's a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it's hard work, but it's the price you pay for owning everything.

  Scott Woods

  Hard Work, Class, Racism

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• The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Doors, World, Red

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• I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()

  Grant Morrison

  Pain, Sadness, Long

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• It just seems like right now we’re in a place where people are being witch-hunted for expressing an opinion. Even if it’s a lousy opinion or a shitty opinion, and comics I don’t think can ever fall into the trap of any groups that want to censor what a person says or thinks or punish a person for expressing what they think. Anything you say about a social issue is going to offend half the country. I don’t care how nicely you say it, I don’t care how well you construct the joke, simply by stating the opinion, you are for something and anti something else.

  Jim Norton

  Country, Fall, Thinking

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• The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.

  Ali Khamenei

  Iraq, Tails, Way

  "The Americans in Iraq are 'like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap'". MEMRI TV, May 2004.

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