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I have a real problem when people say, "Well I walked by and you should have seen what was on the computer screen." Well, don't look, sweetie. It's none of your business. Avert your eyes. -- Judith Krug
People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best. -- David Chalmers
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. -- Joel Salatin
No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War. -- Charles Albert Gobat
With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick. -- Elizabeth Holmes
I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science. -- Joseph Rotblat
Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end. -- Elliott Abrams
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound. -- Toshihiko Fukui
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. -- Bernhard von Bulow
By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. -- Karl A. Menninger
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone. -- Andrew Jackson
We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction. -- Michael McCaul
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? -- H. G. Wells
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that. -- Henry Louis Gates
Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation. -- Al Franken
This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
The whole kind of post-World War I settlement that formed the modern Middle East is in danger of collapsing, and we can - we, the United States, you know, the preeminent power in the world - we can say that we want to ignore that, but how long can we avert our gaze? And how long can we stay out? -- Dexter Filkins
Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. -- Camille Paglia
Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert. -- Horace
We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls. -- Dennis Kucinich
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes. -- Akira Kurosawa
Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? -- Jeremy Rifkin
Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm. -- A. S. Byatt
Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. -- Charles Olson
When young people grow up....they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze. -- Tite Kubo
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone. -- Hafez
In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone. -- Hafez
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character. -- Frederick William Robertson
By preventing new conflicts, we avert the causes of radicalization and the risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, including in Germany. -- Wolfgang Schauble
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. -- Alvin Toffler
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future. -- Winston Churchill
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make. -- Prince Charles
The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices. -- Rebecca West
You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have. -- Kim Edwards
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things. -- Isaac Newton
May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it. -- Dalai Lama
We strive to further the occurrence of whatever we imagine will lead to Joy, and to avert or destroy what we imagine is contrary to it, or will lead to Sadness. -- Baruch Spinoza
Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it. -- Quintus Tullius Cicero
If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose. -- Bernard Brodie
The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die. -- Catherine Bertini
John F. Kennedy:] Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring down an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. -- Elie Abel
Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman. -- Scott Lynch

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