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• Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

  Paul Valery

  Advice, Bounds

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• I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.

  Allan McNish

  Car, Waiting, Ferrari

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• A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

  Peter Straughan

  Fall, Mean, Good Reads

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• Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Order, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

  Henry Adams

  Memories, Men, Skills

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

  Mason Cooley

  Spring, Cutting, Arrogance

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• Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

  Jack Welch

  People, Trying, Common

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• Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Art, Fall, Thinking

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• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  Carl Honore

  Airplane, Journey, Lunch

  "Recession? The Perfect Time to Slow Down" by Carl Honoré, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2008.

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• You can’t trap justice.  It’s an idea, a belief.

  Brad Pitt

  Ideas, Justice, Belief

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• I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model. I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

  Clay Aiken

  Fall, Responsibility, America

  Reuters, February 22, 2004.

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• Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

  Gene Wilder

  Fall, Being In Love, Actors

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• The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Hate, Care, Pay

  "'Grey's Anatomy' star wishes she could gain weight. And kiss Angelina". featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. December 7, 2006.

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• Voting is a very scary arena to be in, but I do vote. I go in there and pull the lever. It's kind of like pulling the lever and watching the trap door fall out from beneath you. Why should we trust any of these people? None of them ever deliver on anything. It's always disappointing.

  Mel Gibson

  Fall, Doors, People

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• The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Ideas, Rabbits

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• Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to a friend the other day, 'Remember, our kids are not us.' They're not. Sometimes we're trying to fix things that happened to us or projecting [onto them], and that's a terrible, terrible trap.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Dirty, Kids, Trying

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• The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

  Klaus Schulze

  Fighting, Thinking, Evil

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• This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God.

  Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

  Men, Comfort, World

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• Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Class, Care

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Meaningful, Weed, Recovery

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• A whole new thing. A forging of the humble parts of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it...a cheese-trap.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Humble, Bread, Cheese

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• There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?

  Noam Chomsky

  Educational, Taken, Struggle

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• Trapped in a trap of your own making.

  David Baldacci

  Trapped

  David Baldacci (2012). “The Innocent”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best.

  T. H. White

  Daughter, Queens, Clever

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.248, Penguin

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• It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of our forebears. Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Forever, Heritage, Way

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA

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