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There's something about the houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
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There's Something About The Houdini Act That

James Randi
There's something about the houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
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Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. i propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.
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Escapology has one thing going for it that probably made harry houdini such a superstar in his day and a legend in the present. everyone wants to escape from something. taxes, contracts, illness, work, the multitude of burdens that we chafe under are shadows from which we want to escape.
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