#escaping

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

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War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. ↗

— Philip Caputo

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In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies. ↗

— Chris Kattan

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I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. ↗

— James Joyce

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Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. ↗

— Edith Piaf

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Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

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One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

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