Quotes with avoiding

  • My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
  • Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
  • There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
  • Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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  • Albert Einstein If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ayn Rand Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bo Bennett Avoiding the phrase "I don't have time...", will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Oliver Herford Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Bo Bennett Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.
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    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Joey Adams Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
    Joey Adams
    American comedian (1911 - 1999)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Angela Merkel Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Boethius If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ben Carson It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Jorge Luis Borges My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Bing Gordon Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Carlos Ghosn Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Baruj Benacerraf The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Aaron Sorkin There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Francis Bacon There is a superstition is avoiding superstition.
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    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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