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Tag Name "Avoid" (1697)

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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
Aberjhani
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
Aberjhani
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
Aberjhani
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In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
Abe Fortas
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I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Worry is when you choose from millions of possible thoughts, only the few which deal with a potential misfortune or problem. Once you accept your worrying as the act of choosing specific thoughts, you can consciously make an effort to avoid those thoughts that cause you needless pain and choose more constructive, positive thoughts.
Zelig Pliskin
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie Hoffman
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The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
Zhuangzi
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Sometimes being too nice is dangerous, you have to show your mean side once in a while to avoid getting hurt.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
Aasif Mandvi
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Those who act on excitement act intermittently this is hardly the way to avoid regression. Those whose understanding comes from emotional perceptions are as confused as they are enlightened this is not a lamp that is constantly bright.
Zicheng Hong
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...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.
Tim Bray
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We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.
Zig Ziglar
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After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.
Zig Ziglar
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There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.
Henri
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[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.
Thein Sein
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... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them
Carlos Castaneda
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In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.
A. J. Jacobs
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Avoid the crowd, avoid mass audiences, keep your own counsel, which is the counsel of philosophy of wisdom you can acquire and make your own.
Zygmunt Bauman
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Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.
Don Roff
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If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.
Herbie Brennan
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Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.
Christopher Bollen
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Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
Lucian Freud
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Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature.
Ibn Taymiyyah
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