Avoid Quotes
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I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
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Members of the non-ruling class who want to rise in their profession through sheer competence try at once to avoid the ruling class’s rituals while guarding against infringing its prejudices. Averse to wheedling, they tend to think that exams should play a major role in getting or advance in jobs, that records of performance—including academic ones—should be matters of public record [common in other countries like France and India], and that professional disputes should be settled by open argument.
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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
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You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.
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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
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An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.
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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
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You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
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The Founders believed that liberty depended on persons with the maturity to avoid both radical self-assertion and a timid reliance on the state.
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To cut a man with a single blow is easy. To avoid being cut by a man is difficult.
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It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.
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I try to avoid political ties.
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That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
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In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
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Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.
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One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.
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All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them.
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We cannot be afraid to touch it. We do have to examine new mechanisms like luxury taxes and in particular sporting criteria like squad limitations and fair transfer rules, to avoid player hoarding.
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Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
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If eyes were windows to the soul, hers had been bricked up to avoid taxation.
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When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
