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• We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

  Roderick Thorp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  Roderick Thorp (2014). “Rainbow Drive”, p.68, Open Road Media

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• There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap. And what would that be sir? Me

  Steven Moffat

  Smart, Tomorrow, Plans

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• It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

  Graham Greene

  Eye, Our Love, Bleeding

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.

  Bill Murray

  People, World, Mice

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• Visibility is a trap.

  Michel Foucault

  Visibility

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• Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Sweet, Men, Yesterday

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.32, Tachyon Publications

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• World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

  Rohinton Mistry

  Dream, Ambition, World

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “Tales from Firozsha Baag”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

  Frida Kahlo

  Self, Risk, Suffering

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• Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.

  T. B. Joshua

  Done, Glorify, Looking Back

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• The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.

  James A. Baldwin

  Distance, Play, Roles

  "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy". Esquire, May 1961.

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• I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

  Anais Nin

  Essence, Silence, Secret

  "Under a Glass Bell". Book by Anais Nin, 1944.

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• Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Judgment, Comparison

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• In spite of how things may appear to us, we are never trapped by where we are. The trap is always who we are

  Guy Finley

  May, Who We Are, Spite

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 05, 2013

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• If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.

  William Blake

  Tears, Wipe, Woe

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.103, Penguin

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• Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Kindness, Imagination, Pitfalls

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• It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.

  Julian Casablancas

  Song, Wake Up, Flow

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• Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

  David Walker

  Tourism, Tourists, Bars

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• This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

  David Levithan

  Lifeless, Seems

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.74, Egmont UK

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• Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

  Anna Godbersen

  Steel, Charm

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.

  Judah Smith

  Difficult Situations, Choices, Hopelessness

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Lifestyle

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• They established their patriotic credentials long ago, and are either supportive of the Bush agenda or know when to keep their traps shut.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Patriotic, Long Ago, Supportive

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• I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.

  Jamie Dimon

  Fall, Mean, Risk

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• Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it? The scientists have long held that the evidence in their considered word is "unequivocal," which has been endorsed by every national academy of science in every major country in the entire world.

  Al Gore

  Country, Thinking, Long

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Justice

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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