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• The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Biblical, America, Should Have

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The plague of pornography is swirling about us as never before. Pornography brings a vicious wake of immorality, broken homes, and broken lives. Pornography will sap spiritual strength to endure. Pornography is much like quicksand. You can become so easily trapped and overcome as soon as you step into it that you do not realize the severe danger. Most likely you will need assistance to get out of the quicksand of pornography. But how much better it is never to step into it. I plead with you to be careful and cautious.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Spiritual, Home, Broken

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• The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Drug, United States, Mexico

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• Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

  Charlie Brooker

  Crush, Self, Circles

  "Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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• Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

  Peter Sellers

  Reality, Faces, Labels

  "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 2002.

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• When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: "We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people." That is the difference we make in the world.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Struggle, Safe Haven

  President Obama's Speech on Combating ISIS and Terrorism, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2014.

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• We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the storm to pass before they went in. It was actually an awesome chance for the couple to have some quiet time together after their ceremony.

  Julie Roberts

  Couple, Rainy Day, Waiting

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• It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT civil-rights movement - higher-profile LGBT people - has done to LGBT youth who are trapped out there in those shitholes. But I don't think we need Pride. I am still opposed, on philosophical grounds, to the flap of the rainbow windsock and the damage that does to us intellectually.

  Dan Savage

  Suicide, Philosophical, Pride

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Gratitude, Winning, Competition

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• The 9th chamber, leave you trapped inside my hallway
  You try to flee but you got smoked up by the doorway (blaow! blaow! blaow!)
  No question, I send your ass back, right to the essence
  Your whole frame is smothered in dirt, now how you restin

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Essence, Trying

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• Buffys very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Children, Growing Up, Two

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• I start to think, and then I sink
  Into the paper like I was ink
  When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
  I escape when I finish the rhyme.

  Rakim

  Rap, Writing, Thinking

  Song: I Know You Got Soul

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• I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

  Maria Shriver

  School, Kids, Scared

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Art, Children

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• People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

  Amy Gerstler

  Laughter, Dark, Winter

  Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.75, Penguin

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• Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.

  Bill Moyers

  Believe, Teaching, Echoes

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• The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.

  Mary Daly

  Roots, Etymology, Sin

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• With stillness comes the benediction of peace”.
  “Thinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.  Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.  This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Real, Thinking, Events

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• All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

  Homer

  Men, Body, Fats

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• We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.

  Niels Bohr

  Play, Degrees, Statistics

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• We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

  Greil Marcus

  Success, Stories, Rehabilitation

  Greil Marcus (2015). “Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music: Sixth Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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• I don't know that Brandy [Burre] would ever categorize herself as being trapped, but I felt like I saw her being trapped. When she's cleaning the room and she puts the labels on the toys, that was something that my wife, who's also friends with Brandy, was very adamant that we try to capture. My wife said that showed to her Brandy's creative outlet because she can't be creative in the ways that she used to be or that she maybe wants to be in the future.

  Robert Greene

  Wife, Creative, Trying

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

  Courteney Cox

  Moving, Skins, Faces

  "Courteney Cox Loves Botox, Therapy". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

  Reks

  Rap, Past, Apples

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