#escaping

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

— David Lloyd

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Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. ↗

— Edith Piaf

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Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. ↗

— James Robinson

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

— Charlie Hunnam

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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

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My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me. ↗

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

— Chris Van Hollen

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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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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

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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

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