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The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The king of beasts cannot avoid snares, and the sly one cannot repel predators. Accordingly, one should be crafty to detect traps, and fearless to discourage predators.
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Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.
T. B. Joshua
Stay clear of the snare of reflecting on the past unless it is to praise God for His accomplishments.
3.
Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.
Jada Pinkett Smith
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Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?
Nick Vujicic
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond Chandler
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The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
Soren Kierkegaard
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A trap lord is basically the lord of the trap, and my trap is rap.
ASAP Ferg
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We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.
Charles A. Murray
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To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.
David Jeremiah
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I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path and then trap them.
Paul Mooney
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Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?
Stephen King
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The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.
Elena Ferrante
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Liars often set their own traps.
Aesop
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
Milan Kundera
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As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.
Charles Bukowski
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Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it
Ron Atkinson
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The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
Carolyn Keene
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I thought I'd blown it at the 17th when I drove into a trap. God is a Mexican.
Lee Trevino
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.
Jacques Derrida
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Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
Rumi
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All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.
William Blake
30.
Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse.
Bill Murray
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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
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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
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There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.
Mohnish Pabrai
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The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.
Zhuangzi
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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
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Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
Willie Stargell
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All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.
Robert E. Sherwood
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There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.
Russell T Davies
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Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter
Max Lucado
44.
I liked Evel Knievel, and that game Mouse Trap. That was pretty cool.
Pauly Shore
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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
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Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.
Paul Valery
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I avoid falling into a trap of doing work solely to impress people. I always ask myself, "What don't I ever see?"
Dev Hynes
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To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.
Wendell Johnson
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Plausibility is a trap for the truth laid by lies.
Yvan Audouard