Quotes with escape

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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Edgar Allen Poe They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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  • Alexander Pope Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Oscar Wilde To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aristotle To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Albert Einstein We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • José Saramago We can escape from everything, but not from ourselves.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Martin Buber We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.
    Martin Buber
    Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher (1878 - 1965)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Aldous Huxley We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alice James What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Horace What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Lincoln You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • William Shakespeare Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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