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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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