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Tag Name "Avoid" (1697)

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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
Paul Auster
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I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
Aleksandar Hemon
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What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
Aleksandar Hemon
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The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.
Larry Gelbart
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
William Howard Taft
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If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision.
Richard M. Nixon
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It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.
William J. Bernstein
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Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.
Albert Schweitzer
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The United States should.... avoid unilateral export controls and controls on technology widely available in world markets. Unilateral controls penalize U.S. exporters without advancing U.S. national security or foreign policy interests.
William J. Clinton
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Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.
Albert Ellis
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I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself
Boyd Rice
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
Hans Rosling
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The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description.
Albert Einstein
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The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know it. The artist is present to correct the delusions to which we are all prey in our attempts to avoid this knowledge. - James Baldwin, The Creative Process
James A. Baldwin
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The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
Albert Einstein
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To avoid eye contact, kiss.
Mason Cooley
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Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
William P. Young
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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.
William Penn
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Avoid popularity it has many snares, and no real benefit.
William Penn
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People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
Albert Bandura
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I don't go to see bands any more because I've got tinnitus, so I have to avoid loud music. You get used to it, but when it's quiet you hear a constant ringing.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
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If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.
William S. Burroughs
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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
William Safire
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The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare
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