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Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. -- Honore de Balzac
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.
A daydream is an evasion. -- Thomas Merton
I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester. -- Wesley Snipes
The two greatest priorities for my government are tackling tax evasion and corruption. -- Mario Monti
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. -- Denis Healey
Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion. -- Edward Bond
The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion. -- George Papandreou
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion. -- George C. Marshall
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. -- Thomas Frank
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. -- Heather Brooke
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. -- Ron Lewis
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion. -- Victor Ponta
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
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind. -- Gilbert Parker
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. -- T. S. Eliot
Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capture of natural resource revenues undermine the rule of law, weaken the social fabric, erode citizens' trust in institutions, fuel conflict and insecurity, and hamper job creation. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct. -- Noam Chomsky
All is fair in love, war and tax evasion. -- Tom Sharpe
With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. -- Molly Ivins
Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion. -- Langston Hughes
Staying aloof is not a solution, it is a cowardly evasion. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. -- Sylvia Plath
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. -- Fernando Pessoa
It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man. -- Wilhelm Reich
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions. -- Lord Acton
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. -- Ayn Rand
Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties. -- Baltasar Gracian
Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. -- T. S. Eliot
We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share. -- George Osborne
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. -- Ayn Rand
A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies. -- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced. -- Maria Edgeworth
I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime. -- Kenneth Rogoff
Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality -- Jeff Buckley
The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion - easier to deal with and easier to live with. -- J. K. Rowling
I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ... -- Ian Mcewan
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. -- Nhat Hanh
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
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
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
Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime. -- Jean Ziegler
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family. -- Nicole Krauss
US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion. -- Barack Obama
People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom. -- Mario Cuomo
ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech. -- Chapman Cohen
Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable. -- Edward Kennedy
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. -- Harper Lee
You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5). -- John C. Broger

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