“ A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
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“ It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. ”
- Sir William Blackstone- Copy
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“ The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ”
- Richard J. Ferris- Copy
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“ The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. ”
- Paul Theroux- Copy
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“ Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight. ”
- Ishikawa Takuboku- Copy
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“ We think he is in Afghanistan,... He may not be. Afghanistan has long, porous borders. In the event he decides to flee, we will have to follow him where he flees. ”
- Donald Rumsfeld- Copy
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“ If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. ”
- Stanley Kubrick- Copy
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“ All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ”
- Arthur Christopher Benson- Copy
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“ Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. ”
- Christopher Fry- Copy
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“ Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. ”
- Thomas Wolfe- Copy
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“ Sometimes what a man escapes to is worse than what he escapes from. ”
- Stan Lynde- Copy
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“ One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices. ”
- Niccolo Machiavelli- Copy
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“ Enduring habits I hate… Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ When the super-rich use offshore tax havens to avoid paying what they owe in taxes, they're reneging on their duties as citizens. It seems only fair to me that the consequences of that kind of tax avoidance ought to be loss of citizenship. ”
- Robert Reich- Copy
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“ But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive… ”
- John Milton- Copy
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