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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse. -- Umar
I often work by avoidance. -- Brian Eno
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. -- John Maynard Keynes
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. -- Denis Healey
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. -- William Glasser
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. -- Thomas Hardy
At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that. -- Daniel Craig
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. -- Cyril Connolly
Avoidance is a wonderful therapy -- Maggie Stiefvater
There is no avoidance in delay. -- Aeschylus
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. -- Stefan Molyneux
Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort. -- Orrin Woodward
Avoidance doesn't solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve. -- Tony Dungy
The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. -- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. -- Dan Greenburg
Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long. -- Jennifer Hudson
But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not. -- Liz Murray
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture. -- Alfred Lunt
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self. -- Frederick Lenz
Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self. -- Frederick Lenz
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies. -- George Saunders
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive. -- William S. Burroughs
Christ did not die to make good works merely possible or to produce a half-hearted pursuit. He died to produce in us a passion for good deeds. Christian purity is not the mere avoidance of evil, but the pursuit of good. -- John Piper
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings. -- Joanna Macy
The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going. -- Paul Tournier
Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it. -- Mary Balogh
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek. -- Michael Shurtleff
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. -- Jill Robinson
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. -- John Whiting
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. -- Seamus Heaney
A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. -- Thomas Hardy
I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. -- Alanis Morissette
Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain. -- Karl Abraham
America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system. -- Richard Lamm
If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance. -- Neil Peart
The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance. -- Anthony Foxx
Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire. -- Max Weber
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. -- Noam Chomsky
Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight. -- George C. Williams
What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but without the stress of futile avoidance. Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests, and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes parts of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. -- Martha Beck
When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs. -- Alanis Morissette
I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening. -- Bob Balaban
The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching the drops of rain slide down the pane, very introspective. I'm not inward-looking. I would never go to a shrink. I don't want to know what I'm thinking. I don't really like discussions in my family. It may be an avoidance thing. -- Deborah Moggach
For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them. -- Peter York
When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe. -- Martha Beck
Blame is a change-avoidance strategy. -- Andy Stanley
Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict. -- Bryant McGill
All work is the avoidance of harder work. -- James Richardson
Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance. -- Carl Jung
All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering -- Stefan Molyneux
Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth. -- Adyashanti
The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it. -- Henry Watson Fowler
Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy. -- Seth Klarman
The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques. -- Shannon Wheeler
When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void. -- Bill Crawford
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking. -- Peter Straub
Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not -- Albert Bandura
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. -- Timothy Leary
People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy. -- Andy Stanley
The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance. -- George M. Church
The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome. -- Seth Klarman
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. -- Arthur Brisbane
Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards. -- Mary McCarthy
I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me. -- Maggie Stiefvater
We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. -- Marilyn Ferguson
To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation. -- Bertrand Russell
Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. -- Deepak Chopra
Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures. -- David Livermore
Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting. -- Faith Popcorn
The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. -- Robert Burchfield
nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular ... -- Dorothy L. Sayers
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. -- Hosea Ballou
Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve) -- J.D. Robb
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. -- John Ortberg
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears "? fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure". -- Julia Cameron
Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. -- Alix Kates Shulman
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. -- Robert Staughton Lynd
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment. -- Max Weber
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter. -- Matsuo Basho
Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In order to keep surfing (getting-a-job avoidance) we just automatically got into hashish smuggling. Didn't even occur to us that something bad might happen. -- Allan Weisbecker
No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance. -- David Deutsch
Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work. -- Rory Vaden
The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm. -- Shlomo Breznitz
Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth -- Margaret Mead
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials. -- Vanna Bonta
Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey. -- Laura Kuenssberg
The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it"). -- Brian Luke Seaward
That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things. -- Martha Stewart
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss -- Peter Drucker
Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extremely painful. -- James Turner
We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing. -- Epicurus
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others. -- Robert Genn
The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method. -- Frederick Lenz
The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method. -- Frederick Lenz
Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed. -- Franz Kafka
A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice. -- Thomas Jefferson
The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions. -- Benjamin Graham
Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for "?Get Out, Leave Family.' -- Jerry Seinfeld
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war. -- Edward Condon
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time. -- Al Alvarez
The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil. -- Frederick Lenz
The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil. -- Frederick Lenz

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