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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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• Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Breakup, Regret, War

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

  Og Mandino

  Pride, Giving, Water

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• You might be a redneck if the receptionist checks the rat traps at your place of business.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Might, Rats

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• I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.

  Stan Brakhage

  Photography, Art, Struggle

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• Sometimes maybe it's good to have someone doing a sci-fi show who's not actually necessarily from that background. It also means that sometimes I fall into the most elementary of traps.

  Ben Richards

  Fall, Mean, Sometimes

  "Ben Richards Exclusive Interview OUTCASTS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.

  Pauly Shore

  Games, Mouse Traps, Mice

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• The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

  T. E. Lawrence

  People, Honor, Mesopotamia

  "Report on Mesopotamia". The Sunday Times, August 22, 1920.

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• These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Memories, Past

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jan 18, 2017

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• Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

  John Irving

  Choices, Abortion, Needs

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• The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires]

  Steven Moffat

  Smart, Angel, Gun

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• Be a little aware before you are trapped! Marriage is a trap: you will be trapped by the woman and the woman will be trapped by you. It is a mutual trap. And then legally you are allowed to torture each other forever.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Forever, Littles

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• Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• Never be in debt. Never reside near enemies. Never trap your body through disease. Never forget the Lord with his consort who resides in the heart.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Heart, Enemy

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• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Congratulations, Thinking, Weasels

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Interview, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Stupid

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• The object of a bunker or trap is not only to punish a physical mistake, to punish lack of control, but also to punish pride and egotism.

  Charles B. Macdonald

  Mistake, Pride, Golf

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• The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Devil, Faults, Sin

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• I have dedicated my time here on earth to find the tools that can help each of us experience an extraordinary quality of life. I do believe that such a life can only be found by living one's true passion. Without passion, an individual gets caught in the trap of making a living instead of designing a life. When we fall into the trap of getting up each day to reenact an "ordinary" existence, we find ourselves at a level that is merely one of survival.

  Tony Robbins

  Believe, Fall, Passion

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• All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot be overcome without help. The tragic pattern is so familiar. It begins with curiosity that is fueled by its stimulation and is justified by the false premise that when done privately, it does no harm to anyone else. For those lulled by this lie, the experimentation goes deeper, with more powerful stimulations, until the trap closes and a terribly immoral, addictive habit exercises its vicious control.

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, Lying, Exercise

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• There is only one way out of the trap: that you don`t choose; neither this nor that - you simply don`t choose. You withdraw from choice and you become choiceless. Choicelessness is freedom. To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Way, Prison

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• Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

  David Hockney

  Ideas, Style, Use

  David Hockney, Maurice Tuchman, Stephanie Barron, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (1988). “David Hockney: a retrospective”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members

  Elliott Smith

  Leaving, Paws, Bears

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• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  Laini Taylor

  Moving, Fall, Hard Times

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• Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Bridges, Cities, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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