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• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Escapes, Elasticity, Frivolous, Better, Calamity

• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

  John Calvin

  Topics in God

  Tags in Us, Escapes, Forgiveness, Ignorance, Mercy

• A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

  Stephen Covey

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Escapes, Interdependent, Interpersonal, Managers, Progressively, Systems, Total, Continuously, Cardinal, Cannot, Quality, Processes, Too, Until, Relationships, Perfect, Improve, Principle

• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Life, Youth

  Tags in Attain, Escapes, Season, Often

• Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Escapes, Beyond, Relative, Every

• An eel escapes from a good fisherman.

  Topics in French Proverbs

  Tags in Eel, Fisherman, Escapes

• A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.

  Kin Hubbard

  Tags in Escapes

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  Jack Henry Abbott

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