Ray Allen
Basketball Player
"Everything I know now . . . the pitfalls, the highs and lows, everything . . . it taught me and made stronger."
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Pitfalls
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Agnes Martin
Artist
"The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective."
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Author
"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Author
"There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women."
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"Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold."
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"But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified."
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"And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand."
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"There are no clear paths. Only pitfalls and tripwires and darkness."
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"Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too."
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"Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall."
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"I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls."
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"The biggest pitfall to avoid is not writing. Not writing is really, really easy to do, especially if you're a young writer. The hope that elves will come in the night and finish it for you, is a very common one to have. That is my main recommendation - you have to write, and you have to finish what you write and beyond that, it's all detail."
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