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Quotes of the Day for 24 March 2005 - Escape

Erich Weiss was born at Budapest, Hungary on this day in 1874. Erich Who? Well, he didn't use that name past his youth, he created the identity Harry Houdini and became the greatest escape artist of all time. Most people long for escape from something, and thrilled to watch Houdini.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
     - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
     - Eric Hoffer, 1902 - 1983

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
     - Marcus Aurelius, 121 - 180

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
     - Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892 - 1971

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
     - Christopher Fry

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
     - Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946

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