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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

Topics: Democratic Escape Government In Other Words Obligation Only Other Pay Tax Those Vote Which Who Words

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Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

~Alfred A. Montapert

Topics: Choices Consequences Did Escape Ever His Nobody Will

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I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Else Escape Find Get Language Looking Lot Much Other Read Really Someone Thing Used Want Working Writing

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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

~Alice Hoffman

Topics: Another Break Escape Go Going Great Me My Own Own Take Way World

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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

~Alice James

Topics: As Far As Escape Failure Far Goes Less Lie Life Luck Moment More More Or Less Posterity Right Right Moment Seems Seizing Success

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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

~Alice James

Topics: Book Else Escape Everyone Everyone Else Gives Reading Sense Some Superiority Which

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I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.

~Alice Temperley

Topics: Escape Go Mad Place Think I Think

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In a recession, people want to be told for two hours that everything is going to be OK. They want to escape from their humdrum or painful reality into a feel-good drama, or a love story that transcends their daily life.

~Alison Owen

Topics: Daily Daily Life Drama Escape Everything Going Hours Life Love Love Story Ok Painful People Reality Recession Story Transcends Two Want

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Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

~Alyssa Milano

Topics: Baseball Escape Game Park Place Rather Sights Smells Sounds Than Truly Way Would

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I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

~Amanda Beard

Topics: Also Anybody Because Escape Face Felt Go Had Huge Like People Practice Prison Put Standards Swim Swimming Talk Up Water

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