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• Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

  David Parnas

  Ideas, Way, Needs

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• Started from the trap, now I rap

  2 Chainz

  Rap

  Song: Crack, Album: Based On A T.R.U. Story, 2012

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• Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.

  Namkhai Norbu

  Religious, Real, Roots

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• It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

  Arthur Eddington

  Math, Perfect, Impossible

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “New Pathways in Science: Messenger Lectures (1934)”, p.105, Cambridge University Press

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• And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Culture, Way, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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• On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just because it hasn't hit 1933 levels; ominous political trends shouldn’t be dismissed just because there’s no Hitler in sight.

  Paul Krugman

  Fall, Sight, Political

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• Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.

  Milan Kundera

  Player, Games

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sleep, People, Together

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.188, Hamilton Books

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• Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

  Carla Bruni

  Independence, Likes, Fidelity

  "Carla Bruni's revealing interview before she married President Nicolas Sarkozy" by Graham Brough, www.mirror.co.uk. March 29, 2008.

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• The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

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• Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Mean, Logic

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• Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned with plot or story. And so music really helps - often I'll listen to the music and just write anything, just to get through.

  Tony Grisoni

  Writing, Plot, Stories

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• For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

  Josephine Hart

  Bird, Flight, Knows

  Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”

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• Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

  Paul Desmond

  Keys, Different, Balls

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• It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Fall, Opposites

  Fred Rogers (2013). “Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Real, Smart, Party

  "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". BAFTA Lecture, www.bafta.org. September 30, 2011.

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• You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.

  Matthew J. Kirby

  Cages, Never Trust, Never Trust Anyone

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• Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Distance, Fall

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

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• Chess holds deep wisdoms of the people. It is truly an image of life, the reflection of human fate that has shown us the earthly way of suffering in darkness and permanent shortage of time. Like in chess, we encounter all kinds of traps, mistakes, settlements, sacrifices, kings, and queens, doubled pawns, and extraordinary moves while we are on the board ourselves.

  Pope John Paul II

  Queens, Kings, Mistake

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• Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Silence, Understanding, Divinity

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• And now after all this time I finally figured out how to trap him... I will become him.

  John Travolta

  Time

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• Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Mean, Escaping

  "Living in the Present Is a Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.

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• When my friend Melot set the trap, I think I knew it. I turned to death full face, as I had turned to love with my whole body. I would let death enter me as you had entered me. You had crept along my blood vessels through the wound, and the blood that circulates returns to the heart. You circulated me, you made me blush like a girl in the hoop of your hands. You were in my arteries and my lymph, you were the colour just under my skin, and if I cut myself, it was you I bled. Red Isolde, alive on my fingers, and always the force of blood pushing you back to my heart.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Heart, Cutting

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• Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

  Tom Robbins

  Growing Up, Nice, Mean

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.254, Bantam

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• We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.

  Octavio Paz

  Real, Air, Doors

  Octavio Paz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1990.

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