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• I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.

  Allan Boesak

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• I've changed the way I look at things. When I put out a record or single I don't allow myself to set up expectations like, "This song must be a number one hit. Its got to sell X amount of records." I have fallen into that trap before.

  Scott Weiland

  Song, Numbers, Expectations

  Source: www.spin.com

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• My brother gave me some good advice. He said, "What do you want to do? Do that because there are no rules when it comes to love. There are absolutely no rules. Do what you want to do." I think that was the most liberating piece of advice, because love really is unpredictable. There's trap doors, all kinds of scary stuff, caves and bears... You never know what's going to happen so you just have to do what you feel is right in the end.

  Taylor Swift

  Brother, Thinking, Doors

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• If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You will have to get rid of your parents and your conditioning. Life has been in such a trap up to now that even a small child starts feeling guilty. We have not yet been able to develop an education which can help people to grow without feeling guilty. And unless that education happens man will remain ill, ill at ease.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Men, Voice

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• Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Fall, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.maryannhenry.com

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• Your own ego is the only trap that I think you can fall into.

  Robert Altman

  Fall, Thinking, Ego

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• Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.

  Tony Robbins

  Spiritual, Successful, Thinking

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• We often talk about how we are God's "hands and feet," which is true. That being said, we can't fall into the trap of thinking God needs us like we need Him. He's God - which makes the reality that He wants to use us and be in relationship with us an even sweeter, more profound truth.

  Mark Hart

  Fall, Thinking, Reality

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• We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

  Charles A. Murray

  Poverty, Poor, Barriers

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.9, Basic Books

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• The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness.

  John Bosco

  People, Devil, Principles

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• I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap. You don't know if you're watching a cartoon or something that's real. And I didn't want to fall into that trap. I really thought there was a way to use a lot of these old techniques to do some new and really neat stuff.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Summer, Real, Fall

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• Scooby snack. Jurassic. Plastic. Gas. Booby Trap

  Ghostface Killah

  Sex, Rap, Dirty

  Song: Nutmeg, Album: Supreme Clientele, 2006

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• I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

  Chris Hedges

  Sports, Children, Soldier

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• One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

  Francis Bacon

  Reality, Matter, Structure

  Francis Bacon, Rudy Chiappini, Palazzo reale di Milano (2008). “Bacon”, Skira - Berenice

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• Even under the best of circumstances men are hard creatures to trap. Women who flatter themselves into thinking they've trapped one are like people who believe they can get rid of the cockroaches in their kitchen. They're in for a big surprise late one night when they turn on the light.

  Harry Shearer

  Believe, Night, Men

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• If we can be cheered up by positive images we can be depressed by negative ones. As long as we accept images as realities we are in that trap, because you can't control the images.

  David Bohm

  Reality, Long, Mind

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.47, Routledge

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• Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Hurt, Fall, Cheater

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• One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond appearances. But there are traps that come with it. It's brave to throw off the old altars and churches and ceremonies that kept us from discovery, it's not so brave to replace them with chants and rituals and new priests who are retreads of the old.

  Richard Bach

  Discovery, Giving, Brave

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming.

  Harry Shearer

  Art, Thinking, Two

  "How Harry Shearer Discovered the Soul of Richard Nixon". Interview with David Corn, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Women in the public eye and on TV are often scrutinized for how they look so I know how easy it would be to fall into the trap of taking on board this negativity. The healthiest way for me to deal with it is by being fit and healthy through activities like swimming, which helps me focus on what my body can do rather than what it looks like.

  Gabby Logan

  Fall, Eye, Swimming

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• The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cheating, Men, Deception

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• You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe, Law, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Morning, Night, Wind

  Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.229, tredition

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• Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.

  Neil Gaiman

  Design, Tools, Courses

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• You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

  Frank Herbert

  Pain, Animal, Might

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.16, Penguin

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