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• If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Air, Atmosphere

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• Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation can become dangerous. Deep down we know that life is insecure and precarious. However, if we do trust, the shiver carries with it a philosophical optimism: Life, with all its traps and horrors,  is good The bet is implicit in trust itself. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value - like money, if it were suddenly limitless, or sunshine, if there were always fine weather, or life, if we were to live forever

  Piero Ferrucci

  Philosophical, Sunshine, Insecure

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• Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Mean, Next

  Leigh Bardugo (2017). “The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic”, p.50, Imprint

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• You must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death.

  Percy Barnevik

  Decision, Tough, Study

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• One gets wrapped up in reacting to ones own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Reputation, Kind, Reacting

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• Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you dont fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Fall, Thinking, Way

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• We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Feet, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

  Ernest Cline

  Lonely, Lying, Evil

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.74, Random House

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• The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, “What's your alternative?” But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to reflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Jobs, Mean, People

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• One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Long

  "Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, on book two of his vampire trilogy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2012.

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• We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.

  Anne Katherine

  Sometimes, Advantage, Caught

  Anne Katherine (2012). “Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

  Erica Jong

  Passion, Divorce, Motherhood

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.15, Penguin

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• I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

  Emma Donoghue

  Running, Real, Fall

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About "Room". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• I think I've been really lucky to keep my career so varied, and to be open. There's safety in repetition, but there's also a trap there.

  Martin Short

  Thinking, Careers, Safety

  Source: collider.com

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• House guests (I don't care who they are, how much I like them, or how long it's been since I last saw them) are pests, much like roaches and mice. But there are differences. You can trap roaches and mice. And they don't want you to drive them to Disneyland.

  Margo Kaufman

  Differences, Long, House

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• The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

  Zhuangzi

  Forget, Fishes

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• There are three traps that strangle philosophy: The church, the marriage bed, and the professor's chair.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Church, Bed

  George Santayana (1967). “Animal Faith and Spiritual Life”, Irvington Pub

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• Be not like the bird that sees the seed, but not the trap.

  Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

  Bird, Seeds

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• God can be good and terrible-not in succession-but at the same time. This is why we seek a mediator between us and him; we approach him through the mediating priest and attenuate and enclose him through the sacraments. It is for our own safety: to trap him within confines which render him safe.

  Philip K. Dick

  Safety, Priests, Terrible

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Fall, Feelings, Life Is

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Let's not fall into the trap of thinking that all of our Muslim American neighbors in this country are somehow our enemies here. They are our first line of defense.

  Martin O'Malley

  Country, Fall, Thinking

  The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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• Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

  Josh Billings

  Rats, Fingers, Settings

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

  John Steinbeck

  Mind, Lions, Ants

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.158, Penguin

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• I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

  Norman Mailer

  Artist, Style, Actors

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• What magicians we are, turning darkness into light, transforming invisible atoms into dazzling theater of the world, pulling objects, (people as well as rabbits) out of secret microscopic closets, turning winter into summer, making a palmful of moments disappear through time's trap door.  We learned the methods so long ago that they're unconscious, and we've hypnotized ourselves into believing that we're the audience, so I wonder where we served our apprenticeship.  Under what master magicians did we learn to form reality so smoothly that we forgot to tell ourselves the secret?

  Jane Roberts

  Summer, Believe, Winter

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