"One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he fails to perceive it."
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"Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it."
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"To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American."
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"Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?"
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"My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it."
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"Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time."
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"Good praying is more easily caught than taught."
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"There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute."
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"I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note."
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"When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked."
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"I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it."
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"Love the neighbor. But don't get caught."
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"Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power."
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"Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters."
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"For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard."
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"Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man."
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"I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm."
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"The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes."
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"He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house."
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"Every punch that's thrown is mine. Every punch that's caught, I catch."
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