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• I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind,
  I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,
  But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind;
  I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Blood, Wind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
  And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
  With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
  To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.

  Rupert Brooke

  War, Sleep, Eye

  'Peace' (1914)

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• Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Change, Imagination, Chance

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• At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.

  James A. Baldwin

  Mean, Race, Taste

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• The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me
  Cruelly, being barren.
  Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Light, Radiance

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Genius, Might

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• We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is this: we feel embarrassed because we look bad, and we feel shame because we think we are bad. When we are embarrassed, we feel socially foolish. When we are shamed, we feel morally unworthy.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Thinking, Differences, Looks

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• Going into Indianapolis, playing Indiana, I guess bring it on. It's what we've caught at the end of the year, and we've got to try to make the best of it.

  Bo Ryan

  Years, Trying, Indiana

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• I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.

  Robert Towne

  Pants, Embarrassment, Supposed To Be

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• Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.

  Hannah Arendt

  Lonely, Integrity, Heart

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid,
  And violent death in thousand shapes displayed;
  The city to the soldier's rage resigned;
  Successless wars, and poverty behind;
  Ships burnt in fight, or forced on rocky shores,
  And the rash hunter strangled by the boars;
  The newborn babe by nurses overlaid;
  And the cook caught within the raging fire he made.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Death, War, Fighting

  John Dryden, Geoffrey Chaucer (1897). “Palamon and Arcite”

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• Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be polite,but be yourself, be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. . . . Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Being Yourself, Long

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• Alas, we are the victims of advertisement. Those who taste the joys and sorrows of fame when they have passed forty, know how to look after themselves. They know what is concealed beneath the flowers, and what the gossip, the calumnies, and the praise are worth. But as for those who win fame when they are twenty, they know nothing, and are caught up in the whirlpool.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Flower, Winning, Gossip

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• Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.

  Peter Jackson

  Taken, Wine, Two

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• Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Lying, Embarrassing, Embarrassment

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• Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?... Did you ever hear music up there?... It's the music a man's spirit sings to his heart, when the earth's far away and there isn't any more fear. It's the high, fine, beautiful sound of an earth-bound creature who grew wings and flew up high and looked straight into the face of the future. And caught, just for an instant, the unbelievable vision of a free man in a free world.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Beautiful, Freedom, Ocean

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• How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

  Karl Kraus

  Faithful, Today, Tomorrow

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• ...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Memories, Compassion, Curves

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• People don't want to hear the truth, they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy. And then when they get caught up in it, they start being in denial because they don't want to be wrong.

  Paul Mooney

  People, Denial, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Guy, Over You, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Real, Knowing, People

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• So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Fighting, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.

  Edward Snowden

  Squares, Majority, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

  Ronda Rousey

  Thinking, Trying, Done

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.

  Kathy Change

  Media, Attention, Violence

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