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• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or… — Thomas Carlyle
• It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of… — Jimmy Cannon
• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would… — John Calvin
• No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. — Ernest Renan
• Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by… — Emile Durkheim
• What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity. — Heraclitus
• It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel. — Robert Breault
• Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. — Theodore Parker
• I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes. — Jeri Ryan
• I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
• It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson
• The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he… — Ayn Rand

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