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It was on a trip to Africa with my family - I was eight - and an angry baboon jumped through the window of our parked car. As my siblings escaped, my foot got stuck in the seat. I froze and watched it steal the whole contents of our car around me.

~Cressida Bonas

Topics: Africa Angry Around Car Contents Eight Escaped Family Foot Got Me Our Seat Sibling Steal Stuck Through Trip Watched Whole Window

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I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

~Danny Boyle

Topics: Art Background Culture Escaped Often People Sort Through

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Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new challenges not previously encountered.

~David Grinspoon

Topics: Again Challenges Encountered Escaped Existential Finding Genes New New Challenges New Skills Our Ourselves Reinventing Skills Species Survive Threats Time Time And Time To Survive

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I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Break Business Class Confines Escaped Feel Fortunate Get Had Just Lucky Meaning More Out Really Somehow Something World I Feel

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I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

~Eben Alexander

Topics: Always Believed Brain Death Escaped Explanations Good Had Happens Heavenly Journeys Near People Scientific Those Understand Were Who

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When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.

~Eddie Marsan

Topics: Anything Because Doing Escaped First Idea Offended One Of The Things People Press Pushing Really Somehow Something Started Things

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Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

~Edward Carpenter

Topics: Dead Escaped Friend Mourn Much Out Over Over It Reach Real Self Send Soul Think Thoughts Too Too Much Towards Which Your

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I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Escaped Horror Laughter Some Think I Think

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In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

~Elinor Wylie

Topics: Austere Escaped Fear File Go Masks None Outrageous Quite Single Smile Years

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When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.

~Erin O'Connor

Topics: Bit Blind Bought Burnt Cheese Cooking Down Escaped Excessive Father Fire Flames Forgiven Grill Had Kitchen Lovely Making Me New Off Panic Parents Put Stopped Toast Water Years

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