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• They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or… — William Faulkner
• ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the… — Chapman Cohen
• Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man… — Ben Ames Williams
• Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. — Langston Hughes
• No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of… — Dean Koontz
• Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware… — Stephen Batchelor
• People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you… — Mario Cuomo
• He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if… — John L. Parker Jr.
• Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. — Fernando Pessoa
• So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too… — Peter Weir

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