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• I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

  David Lynch

  Dream, Inspiration, Fishing

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• Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

  Rachel Vincent

  Survival, Alive, Beast

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Never to Sleep”, p.18, Harlequin

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Real, Knowing

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.78, Penguin UK

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• I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Vampire, Want

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• So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack’s true love was made of silicon.

  Michael Grant

  Long, Lust, Might

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• We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

  Rick Yancey

  Hunters

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• It's just one of those deals where I have to keep moving and keep looking. It's a lot about timing and a lot about boat-positioning, and I'm just trying to get fish to react to several different baits.

  Kevin VanDam

  Moving, Trying, Different

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• I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.

  Tammara Webber

  Guy, Three, Breaths

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Between the Lines”, p.37, Tammara Webber

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• Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

  Mason Cooley

  Happiness, Risk, Prudence

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• Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
  And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
  With windlasses and with assays of bias,
  By indirections find directions out.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Carp, Bias

  William Shakespeare, Ann Thompson, Neil Taylor (2006). “Hamlet: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  People, Provocative, Understood

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd,
  Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave;
  For though we like it, as a forward child,
  'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

  William Davenant

  Wise, Children, Ambition

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• Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'!

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Perseverance, Hook, Use

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• But fish not with this melancholy bait
  For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

  William Shakespeare

  Fool, Opinion, Merchant Of Venice

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 101

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• Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

  Epictetus

  Soul, Hook, Kind

  Epictetus (1890). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Passion, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.

  Sissy Spacek

  Powerful, Hollywood, Screenplays

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• I've been trolled lots. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Troll, Discourse

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
  [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

  George Herbert

  Taste, Feels, Mice

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• O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men, Vow

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

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• There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

  Faith Baldwin

  Fishing, Stupidity, Matter

  Faith Baldwin (1934). “Honor bound”

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• Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

  Bill Vaughan

  Beauty, Grace, May

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• I think that we need to be careful, as reporters and as journalists, not to take the bait and not to get into an endless discussion about issues that are trivial.

  Jonathan Karl

  Thinking, Issues, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

  Bob Costas

  Teenage, Believe, Gun

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game" by Jason Whitlock, www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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