Avoid Quotes
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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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Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments.
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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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Consider before acting, to avoid foolishness: It is the worthless man who speaks and acts thoughtlessly.
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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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You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.
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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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We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.
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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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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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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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That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
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Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.
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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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They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
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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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Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
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Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
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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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If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.
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If eyes were windows to the soul, hers had been bricked up to avoid taxation.
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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.
