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Quotes About Circumvention

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
He felt she was walking in a circle about him, turning him end for end, shaking him quietly, and emptying his pockets, without once moving herself. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
~ Ray Bradbury
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
~ James Joyce
As transparency campaigner for more than 10 years, I have long had a sense that something was not quite right about the E.U. referendum. I warned back in November 2017 that the leave campaign seemed to be awash with dark money that may have circumvented rules designed to uphold the integrity of our democratic process.
~ Gina Miller
If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.
~ Tony Abbott
He remembers how terrified Zabi was of manholes when he was little, walking wide, clumsy circles around them.
~ Khaled Hosseini
he seemed to have been driving for hours . . . going round and round in large or small circles, asking the way and being unable to understand the answers (when answers were vouchsafed), all the time seemingly more off-course than ever.
~ Robert Aickman
when prohibited from talking about money directly to Rockefeller, Harper circumvented the ban by praying aloud for money in his presence.
~ Ron Chernow
Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was after all along was already its possession
~ Sarah Hall
Because mankind can circumvent evolutionary law, it is incumbent upon him, say evolutionary biologists, to develop another law to abide by if he wishes to survive, to not outstrip his food base. He must learn restraint.
~ Barry Lopez
Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.
~ Bernard Malamud
just as before we had to go the long way round, to avoid Timeslips and places where directions were often a matter of opinion.
~ Simon R. Green
Within the dynamic of war, there's only direct and indirect, but their variations are inexhaustible. They are born one from the other within infinite tireless circle.
~ Sun Tzu
So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
~ Jon Johansen
So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the many marvels of their majestic bulk and mystic ways; and so dead to anything like an apprehension of any possible dangers from encountering them; that in his poor opinion, the wondrous whale was but a species of magnified mouse, or at least water rat, requiring only a little circumvention and some small application of time and trouble in order to kill and boil.
~ Herman Melville
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
~ James Joyce
Dar amintirea nu-l atac? pe om din fa?? - ea îi d? târcoale.
~ Carson McCullers
Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.
~ Moritz Saphir
circumlocution
~ Nelson DeMille
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
~ James Joyce
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
~ Paul Auster
authority should be questioned, hierarchies should be circumvented, nonconformity should be admired, and creativity should be nurtured.
~ Walter Isaacson
There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to?
~ Jane Austen