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The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

~Albert Schweitzer

Topics: Bends Better Calamities Character Elasticity Escapes Frivolous Great Happens Light Mind Oak Often Presence Recover Sometimes Sooner Spirits Tempest Than Those Which Willow

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I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

~Alexander Siddig

Topics: Any Computer Escapes Games Give Give Me Love Me Sci-Fi Them I Love

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In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: Because Change Escapes Found Guide Illusions Many Powerful Projects Real Reporting

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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

~C. S. Lewis

Topics: Earth Elsewhere Escapes Human Human Race Iniquity Never Pray Race Spread

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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Bearing Burdens Escapes Past Some Without

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Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

~Emmeline Pankhurst

Topics: Being Cannot Civil Civil War Consent Earth Escapes Feeble Forces Govern Her His However Human Human Being Power She Then Very War Weakest Who Woman You

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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

~Ernest Renan

Topics: Enduring Escapes Ever Except Expense Idea Life No Idea Sacrifice Strain Struggle Succeed Without

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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

~George William Curtis

Topics: Always Conversation Escapes Ghost Interview Like Memory Poetry Prose Romance Time Touching Where You

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