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• Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.

  Pope Francis

  Pro Life, Abortion, Court

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• All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot be overcome without help. The tragic pattern is so familiar. It begins with curiosity that is fueled by its stimulation and is justified by the false premise that when done privately, it does no harm to anyone else. For those lulled by this lie, the experimentation goes deeper, with more powerful stimulations, until the trap closes and a terribly immoral, addictive habit exercises its vicious control.

  Richard G. Scott

  Powerful, Lying, Exercise

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• The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

  Elena Ferrante

  Essentials, Treatment, Materials

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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• Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device that could be used against people. That was the narrative.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Bridges, Cities, People

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Devil, Faults, Sin

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• The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

  Lance Morrow

  Real, Doors, History

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• The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires]

  Steven Moffat

  Smart, Angel, Gun

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• Here is the trap you are in.... And it's not my trap—I haven't trapped you. Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you—because you know how to perform them—have no choice, either. What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too. If abortion was legal, a woman would have a choice—and so would you. You could feel free not to do it because someone else would. But the way it is, you're trapped. Women are trapped. Women are victims, and so are you.

  John Irving

  Choices, Abortion, Needs

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• Vishous: "...we both would slaughter anything that so much as startled you." Jane: "I'm scared of mice and spiders. But you don't need to use that gun on your hip to blow a hole in a wall if I ran into one, okay? Havaheart traps and rolled newspapers work just as well. Plus, you don't need a Sheetrock patch and plaster job afterward. I'm just saying.

  J.R. Ward

  Jobs, Wall, Blow

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• We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Fall, Opportunity

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• your loved ones have been used to lure you into Kronos's traps. Your fatal flaw is personal loyalty Percy. You do not know when it is time to cut your losses. To save a friend you would sacrifice the world.

  Rick Riordan

  Loyalty, Cutting, Loss

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• The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Baghdad

  "Iraqi official: U.S. lying about progress". www.cnn.com. April 2, 2003.

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• One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice from being killed. “Is this true, daughter?” Thomas Bowman had rumbled, his gaze filled with ire as he stared at Daisy. “It could be,” she had allowed. “But there is another explanation.” “And what is that?” Bowman had asked sourly. Her tone turned congratulatory. “I think we are hosting the most intelligent mice in New York!

  Lisa Kleypas

  Daughter, New York, Intelligent

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• No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Animal, Ice, Feminist

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• The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of totally culminated enlightenment. It is the manifestation of ultimate reality. Traps and snares can never reach it. Once its heart is grasped, you are like the dragon when he gains the water, like the tiger when she enters the mountain. For you must know that just there (in zazen) the right Dharma is manifesting itself and that, from the first, dullness and distraction are struck aside.

  Dogen

  Heart, Reality, Dragons

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• For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

  William H. Gass

  Writing, Character, Stories

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• Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Gun, Thinking

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• If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

  Alan Watts

  Black, Calling, World

  Alan W Watts (2012). “Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety”, p.76, Random House

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• People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Pain, Fall

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 3, 2005.

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• A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Morning, Book, Fall

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