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• So there I was being strangled by a ranting, half-naked madman in the middle of the woods, with a she-werewolf dangling from a rope snare somewhere nearby.

  Jim Butcher

  Naked, Rope, Half

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.94, Penguin

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• There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Passion, Fire

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• And so he [the Jew] advances on his fatal road until another force comes forth to oppose him, and in a mighty struggle hurls the heaven-stormer back to Lucifer. Germany is today the next great war aim of Bolshevism. It requires all the force of a young missionary idea to raise our people up again, to free them from the snares of this international serpent.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Struggle, Ideas

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• O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Believe, Fall, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1991). “Selected short stories”, Penguin Classics

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• If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?

  Mary Szybist

  Color, Scent, Pages

  Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before you start writing. Without a sense of direction, you can get lost in the middle.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Writing, Stories, Lost

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• Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Christmas, Dad, Real

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• To the man who prays habitually (not only when he feels like it-that is one of the snares of religion-but also when he does not feel like it) Christ is sure to make Himself real.

  James Stewart

  Prayer, Real, Men

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• I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

  James Stephens

  Pain, Rabbits, Cry

  'The Snare' (1915)

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• Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  History, Serious, Affair

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "A Game", Chapter: "Game III", p. 98), June 13, 2012.

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• For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.

  Chad Smith

  Nice, Hate, Four

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• If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Country, Butterfly

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• Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Soul, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• I used to play a few instruments including guitar and snare drums, but I think a musical background is an important part of a career. If you start out playing instruments you create a better instinct and feeling for music.

  Nicky Romero

  Thinking, Guitar, Play

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• When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

  Eminem

  Way, Hats, Behavior

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

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• We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.

  Henry Miller

  Holiness, Kind, Holy

  Henry Miller (1963). “The Rosy Crucifixion”

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• It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

  Jack London

  Lying, Passion, Men

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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• A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations; changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?

  Zicheng Hong

  Hunting, Ducks, Taoism

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• I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Orthodoxy, Glory, Fullness

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.119, Zondervan

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• I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

  Travis Barker

  Teacher, Play, Tilt

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• You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Catholic, Dresses, Purity And Love

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• My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It's a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It's a real challenge for composers.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Powerful, Real, Blood

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• It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

  Roger Williams

  Giving, Able, Satan

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Faith gives new light to the soul, but it does not put our eyes out; and what God hathgivenusinournature could never be intended as a snare to Religion, or engage us to believe a lie.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Lying, Believe, Eye

  1660 The Worthy Communicant.

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• I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Sexy, Simple, Guitar

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