#escaping

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

— Chris Van Hollen

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Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

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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

#age #antiquity #censure #eminent #escaping

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

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

#acting #age #environment #escaping #grew

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary. ↗

— Philip Caputo

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

— Chris Kattan

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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Omg this is like one of those sappy romance movies but I don’t care! Jake is holding my hand! I looked back up at him and we slowly rose staring into each other’s eyes. Ok, where the heck is my awesome music saying he’s the one?! What about a breeze that blows my hair in all directions making me look hot? C’mon Cupid! Give me something!!! A weak chilly breeze blew. It barely even moved my hair. Oh c’mon!!!! ↗

— Bella Shadow

#escaping-the-killer #humor #jake #movies

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

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