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Erik Pevernagie
“Let us evade the grueling imprisonment of our mental cage and invade the explosive power of love. Only by redirecting lost momentum to positive thinking we can restrengthen the mold of our trust. (“Le ciel c’est l’autre”)”
― Erik Pevernagie
tags: cage, evade, explosive, grueling, imprisonment, love, mold, positive-thinking, redirect, trust
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: all-there, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, around-the-bend, avoid, balanced, bananas, batty, bonkers, bushed, certifiable, compos-mentis, conscious, consciously, cracked, crackers, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, demented, depress, depressed, depressing, depression, deranged, disturbed, escape, evade, evasion, faculties, funny, humor, humour, in-one-s-right-mind, insane, insanity, joke, jokes, limit, limitation, loco, loony, loopy, lucid, lucidity, mad, mad-as-a-hatter, mental-health, mentally-disordered, mentally-ill, mind, non-compos-mentis, normal, not-all-there, number, number-of-people, nuts, of-sound-mind, of-unsound-mind, off-one-s-rocker, out-of-one-s-mind, out-of-one-s-tree, pretend, pretense, psycho, psychotic, rational, rationality, reason, sane, saneness, sanity, satire, schizophrenic, screwy, sense, sincere, sincerely, stability, stable, stark-raving-mad, suicidal, suicide, sympathetic, sympathy, together, unbalanced, unconscious, unconsciously, unhinged, unstable, unsympathetic, wacko, wits
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: alcohol, alcohol-abuse, alcohol-addiction, alcoholic, alcoholics-anonymous, alcoholism, bashful, diffident, embarrassed, escape, evade, farouche, inhibited, insecure, introverted, mousy, nervous, opium, opium-of-the-people, pain, problem, problems, repressed, reserved, reticent, retiring, self-consciousness, self-effacing, sheepish, shy, shyness, suffering, timid, timorous, unconfident, vehicle, vehicles, withdrawn
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children
tags: abort, abortion, adage, adages, africa, african, anti-life, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, birth, child, childfree, childless, children, church, churches, communism, conspicuous, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, evade, evasion, factories, factory, family-planning, funny, gnome, gnomes, humor, humorous, humour, industrialization, industrialize, industry, insightful, karl-marx, kid, kids, made-me-think, make-you-think, manufacture, manufacturing, maxim, maxims, means, philosopher, pregnancy, pregnant, pro-life, procreate, procreation, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, religion, reproduce, reproduction, satire, satirical, satirist, satirists, saying, sayings, secret, secrets, selfish-selfishness, sex, sexual-intercourse, socialism, south-africa, south-african, thought-provoking, thoughtful, unprotected-sex
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: a-breeze, a-cinch, a-piece-of-cake, a-snap, arduous, arduousness, arrogance, arrogant, back-breaking, bankrupt, bankruptcy, believe, burdensome, child-s-play, demanding, difficult, difficulty, disbelief, duck-soup, easy, easy-as-pie, effortless, elementary, escape, evade, exhausting, facile, fatiguing, grueling, hard, hassle, hope, humble, humility, humor, humour, kids-stuff, laborious, laboriousness, lose, loss, no-sweat, onerous, painless, poor, poverty, problems, punishing, rich, satire, simple, smooth-sailing, someday, straightforward, strain, strenuous, struggle, tiring, toil, tough, trouble, trouble-free, unchallenging, uncomplicated, undemanding, wealth, wealthy, wearisome
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I can rather effectively protect myself from failure by crafting genuinely convincing rationales that justify my unwillingness to try. But I might consider the fact that an action such as this is the real failure. And there’s no protection in that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: escape, evade, fail, failure, fear, fearful, frightened, justification, run, withdraw
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Vincent H. O'Neil
“When an obstacle’s too tough, you don’t hit it head-on. If an object is truly immoveable, it’s also nailed to one place. Find a way around it.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation
tags: dodge, evade, indirect, outwit, strategy
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Lois McMaster Bujold
“I tried to evade it for a long time, but God finds ways of dealing with draft dodgers.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Borders of Infinity
tags: draft, evade, god
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most of most politicians’ answers are long-winded implicit ways of saying: ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I don’t want you to know’.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: beat-around-the-bush, demagogue, demagoguery, evade, evasion, evasive, interview, politician, politicians, politics
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