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Friedrich Nietzsche
“Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
tags: absolute, absolution, agnosticism, distrust, evasion, health, irony, objection, pathology
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Frank Herbert
“Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
tags: epigram, evasion, trap
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Wilkie Collins
“When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.”
― Wilkie collins, The Woman in White
tags: evasion
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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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Mark Twain
“When a prisoner of style escapes, it's called an evasion.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
tags: evasion, style
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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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Rudy Rucker
“Death is simple, but my evasions are complex.”
― Rudy Rucker
tags: all-the-visions, death, evasion
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Merrie Haskell
“The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it’s exhausting to get them out in the right order.” He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she’d heard one. She raised an eyebrow.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns
tags: behind, castle, evasion, funny, merrie-haskell, mg, middle-grade, perrotte, sand, thorns, truth
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Amit Abraham
“Evasion is the worst strategy to feel free.”
― Amit Abraham
tags: evasion, evasiveness
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Ada Palmer
“Secrets pour out like water, even from a single hole”
― Ada Palmer, Too Like the Lightning
tags: evasion, secrets, truth
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“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before his own preinduction physical prompted an angry outburstas an orderly took a stab at his arm to draw blood. Tony roared, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" and was led into the presence of a psychiatrist with whom he engaged in a protracted discussion of the merits of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting, all the while naked. Tony got his 4F classification, presumably on grounds of schizophrenia, and went on to counsel others liable to military service, using the same approach.”
― Peter Stafford
tags: draft, encyclopedia, evasion, psychedelics
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“Tony Cox, still a painter and not yet married to Yoko Ono, pioneered in the use of mescaline for draft-evasion. 400 milligrams taken before his own preinduction physical prompted an angry outburstas an orderly took a stab at his arm to draw blood. Tony roared, "What the fuck do you think you are doing?" and was led into the presence of a psychiatrist with whom he engaged in a protracted discussion of the merits of the New York school of abstract expressionist painting, all the while naked. Tony got his 4F classification, presumably on grounds of schizophrenia, and went on to counsel others liable to military service, using the same approach.”
― Peter G. Stafford, Psychedelics Encyclopedia
tags: draft, evasion, mescaline, psychiatry, schizophrenia
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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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“When you use evasion, avoidance and misdirection to protect yourself from hard questions and even harder answers, you're letting your ego get in the way.”
― Bernardo Moya, The Question: Find Your True Purpose
tags: ego, evasion, protect, quote-on-questions, the-question
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“A politician often uses an example or analogy as an attempt to make us forget the question he or she is supposedly answering.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: critical-thinking, democracy, elections, evasion, interview, politician, politicians, politics, politricks, voting
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Belle Townsend
“I am the body,
and I am the rocks in the pockets,
and I am the water.
There is no evading myself.”
― Belle Townsend, Push and Pull
tags: evasion, life, permanence, self-awareness, suffocation
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Naz Kutub
“No use beating around the bush when the bush is just a bare stump at this point.”
― Naz Kutub, The Loophole
tags: evasion
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