Catch-22 is a 1961 novel by American novelist Joseph Heller. It was adapted into a feature film in 1970 The novel follows Captain Yossarian, a fictional World War II US Army Air Corps B-25 bombardier, and a number of other American airmen during World War II. They are based on the island of Pianosa, west of Italy. A sequel to Catch-22, Closing Time, was written by Heller and published in 1994. Catch-22 - The title. A magazine excerpt from the novel was originally published as "Ca ...

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Another theme is that of the folly of patriotism and honor, which leads most of the airmen to accept Catch-22s and being lied to by abusive bureaucrats, but which Yossarian never accepts as a legitimate answer to his complaints. One of the many strange aspects of this book is that, despite the fact that the (official) villains are the Germans, no German soldiers ever actually appear in the story. As the narrative progresses, Yossarian comes to fear American bureaucrats more than he fears the Germans a ...

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Catch 22 has become a term, inspired by Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, describing a general situation in which A must have been preceded by B, and B must have been preceded by A. Symbolically, where either A or B must come into being first. A familiar example of this circumstance occurs in the context of job searc ...

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Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

- Doug King

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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold.

- John Jay Chapman

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Catch - Baseball. Unlike in American football and other sports, neither secure possession for a time nor for a number of steps is enough to demonstrate that a catch has occurred. A fielder may, for example, appear to catch and hold a batted ball securely, take a few more steps, collide with a wall or another player, and drop the ball—this is not a catch. To avoid ambiguity with the common term catch meaning any action that gains possession of a ball, some may say that a fielder gloved a thr ...

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In fisheries science, by-catch refers to species caught in a fishery intended to target another species, as well as reproductively-immature juveniles of the target species. By-catch is a serious issue that can contribute to species endangerment. One example of by-catch is dolphins caught in tuna nets. As dolphins are mammals and do not have gills they may drown while stuck in nets underwater. This by-catch issue has been one of the reasons of the growing ecolabelling industry, where fish producers mark their packagings with som ...

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A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that becomes spontaneously popularized (i.e., it "catches" on) through widespread repeated usage. Catch phrases often originate in popular culture (such as movies and television), and are spread through a variety of media, including word of mouth. A catch phrase's defining features are its sudden, spontaneous, and widespread public reception, and its ...

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The bullet catch is a conjuring illusion in which a magician supposedly catches a bullet fired directly at him, often in the mouth but also occasionally in the hand. The bullet catch is also referred to as the bullet trick or occasionally the gun trick. Bullet catch - In performance. The trick usually involves a gun which is loaded and operated by someone with a knowledge of firearms to give the illusion that no deception is being used. In most instances, the bullet is marked by an audience me ...

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Catch and release is a form of recreational fishing where releasing the fish (catch) is believed to be a technique of conservation. After capture, the fish are returned to the water before they are totally exhausted or otherwise injured. In the United Kingdom, catch and release has been performed for more than century by coarse fishermen in order to prevent target species from disappearing in heavily fished ...

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Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 motion picture set in the 1960s. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and adapted by Jeff Nathanson loosely from the book by Frank Abagnale Jr. and Stan Redding. The movie states that it was inspired by the true life story of Abagnale; the movie diverges somewhat from the real events as reported in Abagnale's book on his exploits. Tagline: The true story of a real fake. Catch Me If You Can - Movie plot. The film dramatizes the true story of a t ...

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The paradox known as Buridan's ass was not originated by Buridan himself. It is first found in Aristotle's De Caelo where Aristotle asked how a dog faced with the choice of two equally tempting meals could rationally choose between the two. Buridan nowhere discusses this specific problem but its relevance is that he did advocate a moral determinism whereby, save for ignorance or impediment, a human faced by alternative courses of action must always choose the greater good. Buridan allowed that the will could delay the choice in ...

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Double Bind is a communicative situation where a person receives different or contradictory messages. The term was coined by the anthropologist Gregory Bateson, and was an attempt to suggest a possible mechanism or underpinning for schizophrenia from an anti-biologist perspective (in other words to proffer an explanation without requiring the assumption of organic brain dysfunction). The phenomenon ...

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In logic, begging the question is the term for a type of fallacy occurring in deductive reasoning in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in one of the premises. For an example of this, consider the following argument: "Politicians cannot be trusted. Only an untrustworthy person would run for office; the fact that politicians are untrustworthy is proof of this. Therefore politicians cannot be trusted" Such an argument is fallacious, because it relies upon its own proposition (in this case, "pol ...

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The human activity of animal trapping consists of hunting for animals to obtain their furs, which are then used for clothes and other artifacts, or sold / bartered (see fur trade). Trappers may often, but not exclusively, use traps to catch their prey; hence the name of the activity and its practitioners. Hunters may also trap animals for food. Trapping other animals for food is also practiced by some animals, for example, the funnel web spider traps its prey. Trapping - History. Animal trappi ...

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An adverb is a part of speech that usually serves to modify verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, clauses, and sentences. Adverbs typically answer such questions as how?, when?, where?, in what way?, or how often? This function is called the adverbial function, and though typically taken up by adverbs, adverbials may also be realized by other forms, such as adverbial phrases or an adverbial clauses or other types of phrases or wo ...

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Damned if you do, damned if you don't refers to a Catch-22 situation in which one is placed into an unfavorable situation no matter what choice one makes. It is representative of an impossible-to-escape, unwinnable situation. A similar situation is termed the lesser of two evils, in which two evils exist, and one must decide the lesser of the two. Catch-22 logic - Scenario example. Consider the Kobayashi Maru exam in the Star Trek universe: in it, a cadet assumes a command position on a starship tha ...

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Due to Tomas' history with Catch 22 and Streetlight's rapid rise to success many fans have speculated that their may be some animosity and rivalry between the two bands. In fact both bands have lyrics on their albums (Everything Goes Numb and Dinosaur Sounds that were both released in late 2003) that could be interpreted as hostile messages to one another. In Streetlight's "A Moment of Silence" one line goes "If you hate me so much then stop singing my songs", which many fans took to be a reference to Catch 22 still performing songs which Tomas wrote on Keasbey Nights. Similarly th ...

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Unlike in American football and other sports, neither secure possession for a time nor for a number of steps is enough to demonstrate that a catch has occurred. A fielder may, for example, appear to catch and hold a batted ball securely, take a few more steps, collide with a wall or another player, and drop the ball—this is not a catch. To avoid ambiguity with the common term catch meaning any action that gains possession of a ball, some may say that a fielder gloved a throw ...

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