Avoid Quotes
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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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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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Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
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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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I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.
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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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You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.
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I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know.
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In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.
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Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
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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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Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.
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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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If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.
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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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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.
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Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
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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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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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Because of the grass and open face, I take one more club for shots from the rough, unless the ball is sitting on top of dry grass. Then, I use more loft and swing softer, trying to hit it about 70 percent to avoid a flyer over the green.
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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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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.
