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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Choose Conception Consumes Down Escaping Every Forgetting Let Us Means Moment Nightmare Pleasure Sensation Strengthens Time Two Us Weighed Work

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I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

~Charlie Hunnam

Topics: Child Escaping Films Me Melancholy Slightly Think Way Were I Think

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

~Chris Kattan

Topics: About Escaping Go Hollywood Moviemaking Movies Reality Used

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

~Chris Van Hollen

Topics: Cost Education Escaping Greatest Higher Higher Education Obstacles Poverty Staggering

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All of us can agree that we want government to work as well as possible, and we should all applaud efforts to improve it. But there is no escaping the divisive and essential questions: What is the purpose of the state, and whom does it serve?

~Chrystia Freeland

Topics: Agree Applaud Divisive Does Efforts Escaping Essential Government Improve Possible Purpose Questions Serve Should State Us Want Well Whom Work

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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

Topics: Before Earth Escaping Fatal Final Greatest He Himself Hour Knowing Lay Less Man Not Knowing Planet Present Snare Than Trap Traps

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If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.

~Clive Anderson

Topics: Burden Clutch Depriving Escaping Even Every Greater Just Keep Last Passing People Person Pocket Point Poorer Pound Realize Rich Support Than You Your Yourself

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Houdini connected to people on an emotional level so that when he would escape that straight jacket it wasn't about the straight jacket. It was about people looking at it and escaping poverty. When you have that it's the truest form of magic.

~Criss Angel

Topics: About Connected Emotional Emotional Level Escape Escaping Form He Jacket Level Looking Magic People Poverty Straight Truest Would You

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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

Topics: Chance Democracy Escaping First First Step Full Just Know Lead No Chance Now Requires Risks Sides Stand Step Still Taken Towards Trust Violence Where Will

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We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we're trying to escape from.

~David Lloyd

Topics: Developing Escape Escaping Means More Our Solving Spend Than Time Troubles Trying

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