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• Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Men, Doe, Addresses

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.134, Open Road Media

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• The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Loss, Serious Business, Culture

  Lesslie Newbigin (2013). “The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic”, p.36, SPCK

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• In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Talking, People, Together

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• For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

  Sylvia Plath

  Jobs, Real, Writing

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• No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race.

  John F. Kennedy

  Race, Risk, Deception

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Frustration, Causes

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• So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

  Peter Weir

  Creativity, Analysis, Too Much

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• Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Imagination, Hiding, Direct

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, p. 163, 2006.

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• He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender; better pay attention to it and back off if it gets any worse. Maybe ice it. The old Injury Evasion Fandango. Did it ever end?

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Ice, Hands Up

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• People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

  Jeremy Northam

  Children, Kids, People

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• A daydream is an evasion.

  Thomas Merton

  Daydreaming

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.27, Image

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• True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

  Robert Musil

  People, Decision, True And False

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.891, Pan Macmillan

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• Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

  Jeff Buckley

  Ignorance, Reality, Errors

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• Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

  Hyman Rickover

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Unique

  "The Rickover Effect". Book by Theodore Rockwell, 1992.

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• I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me--the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

  Frank Lentricchia

  Real, Eye, People

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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.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Reality, Hands

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• If it were true that conservatives were racist, sexist, homophobic, fascist, stupid, inflexible, angry, and self-righteous, shouldn't their arguments be easy to deconstruct? Someone who is making a point out of anger, ideology, inflexibility, or resentment would presumably construct a flimsy argument. So why can't the argument itself be dismembered rather than the speaker's personal style or hidden motives? Why the evasions?

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Self, Style

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• History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.

  Lord Acton

  History, Opinion, Disputes

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.16, VM eBooks

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• It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of evasions: history as sociology, leaders as teachers, bland benevolence as a motive force, when, finally, power is an end to itself, and the instinctive urge to prevail the most important single human trait, the necessary force without which no city was built, no city destroyed.

  Gore Vidal

  Teacher, Simple, Sea

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• Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental operations.

  Ernst Mach

  Science, Sound, Saving

  Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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• The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion.

  George Papandreou

  Real, Cutting, Tax Evasion

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• Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

  George C. Marshall

  Down The Road

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• Our international banking system allows banks to accept funds gained from tax evasion and other crimes and thereby facilitates and encourages embezzlement by public officials, especially in developing countries, as well as tax evasion and tax avoidance by multinational corporations.

  Thomas Pogge

  Country, Banking, Developing Countries

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Fear, Inattention, Facts

  "Krishnamurti's notebook".

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• Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in the present moment, the mind flings us into tawdry and tiresome elaborations of past and future. This craving to be otherwise, to be elsewhere, permeates the body, feeling, perceptions, will - consciousness itself. It is like the background radiation from the big bang of birth, the aftershock of having erupted into existence.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Past, Feelings, Mind

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