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«Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.»
«People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.»
Author: Mario Cuomo
| Keywords:
Byzantine, evasion, evasions, lawyers, Machiavellian, Politicians, simple People, trial, trial lawyer
«Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.»
«Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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Poetry
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aware, constant, deeper, evasion, evasions, from time to time, mostly, penetrate, penetrated, rarely, substratum, unnamed
«Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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abomination, Eke, equivocation, evasion, evasions, learnt, mental reservation, on the sly, reservation, Reservations, sly, tricks
«REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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accessible, dissuasion, evasion, evasions, hospitable, infections, persuasion
«In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.»
«All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself / civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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Animal World, evasion, evasions, refused, The Animal
«A daydream is an evasion.»
«They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion -- not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aggrandizement, aped, aping, bondage, evasion, evasions, improvidence, intemperance, laziness, vices
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