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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. -- Mark Twain
Private student loans should be avoided at all costs. -- Suze Orman
It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. -- Noam Chomsky
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. -- Konrad Adenauer
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. -- Mae West
Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided. -- Charles Curtis
Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced. -- Edward Norton
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. -- Albrecht Durer
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday part of life. -- Leigh Steinberg
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. -- Richard Holbrooke
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. -- Robert E. Lee
I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me. -- Hedy Lamarr
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. -- R. D. Laing
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. -- Nat Turner
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. -- Leslie Charteris
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military. -- Vladimir Putin
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. -- Jean Piaget
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. -- Robert Redford
I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much. -- Margaret Cho
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. -- Gordon Moore
I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker. -- Will Ferrell
A battle avoided cannot be lost. -- Sun Tzu
What is deferred is not avoided. -- Thomas More
Loveless moments are to be avoided. -- Yusef Lateef
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. -- Alphonse Karr
Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided. -- Laozi
Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies. -- Adolf Hitler
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. -- Marcel Duchamp
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A war put off is not a war avoided. -- Charlton Heston
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided. -- Publilius Syrus
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. -- Horace
A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. -- Samuel Hall Lord
Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided. -- Arthur W. Pink
Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided ... -- Pauline Kael
Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support. -- Steven Sinofsky
I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided. -- Fernando Pessoa
True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided. -- Steven Brust
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy. -- William Wycherley
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. -- Bruno Schulz
I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors. -- Richelle Mead
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding. -- Robert M. Pirsig
The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided. -- Shawn Ryan
Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided. -- Shawn Ryan
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands. -- Noam Chomsky
Destiny is something not to be desired and not to be avoided. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career. -- Bob Hope
What can be avoided Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods? -- William Shakespeare
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. -- Alexander Hamilton
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. -- Alexander Hamilton
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided. -- Mason Cooley
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. -- Khaled Hosseini
Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation. -- Rajneesh
The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out. -- Seth Godin
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible. -- Winston Churchill
Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided. -- William Penn
The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided. -- Shawn Ryan
You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided. -- Publilius Syrus
The Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite -- Jeremy Clarkson
In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided. -- Bertrand Russell
Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. -- William Shakespeare
I've avoided doing network shows because I don't think they're true to real families. -- Jeff Garlin
In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided. -- Ludwig von Mises
Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be. -- John C. Maxwell
I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided -- Robert Tappan Morris
It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs -- Daniel Handler
Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided. -- Cynthia Leitich Smith
For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries. -- Mark Viduka
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war. -- Chief Joseph
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. -- Gregory Maguire
I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business. -- Fran Lebowitz
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided. -- Brad Willis
This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided. -- Gary Bettman
To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided. -- Orrin Woodward
Movies and I just equally avoided each other at certain times in my life, you know? -- Summer Phoenix
With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided -- Eason Jordan
Everyone knows that evil should be avoided wherever possible; few actually know where it is possible. -- Raheel Farooq
One of the few certainties in life is that persons of certainty should certainly be avoided. -- Willy Russell
Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought. -- William Sloane Coffin
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. -- Irwin Edman
Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight. -- Stephen Colbert
Violence is avoided, when we sit down with others, and discuss issues, and work together for solutions. -- Ellen J. Barrier
If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it. -- Frederick Lenz
Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about. -- Cecelia Ahern
I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while. -- Michael Douglas
We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise. -- Buffalo Bill
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool. -- Roseanne Barr
The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided. -- Dalai Lama
Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten -- John Walter Bratton
A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force. -- Vladimir Yakunin
Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading. -- Stephen D. Krashen
A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also. -- Urijah Faber
Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic. -- Beck
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs. -- Kathryn Minshew
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided. -- Swami Vivekananda
Problems may only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by experiencing life's problems. -- Jim Stovall
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided. -- Winston Churchill
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower. -- Malachy McCourt
Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field. -- Chuck Klein
Understand--it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can't be avoided. If it first seems to be non-sense, wait: roots will reveal themselves. -- Richard Foreman
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams -- Paulo Coelho
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. -- Seneca the Younger
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided. -- Philip Bobbitt
There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was. -- Stephenie Meyer
It is sad but so many tragedies can be avoided, if we extend a little bit of love to one another. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming. -- Alice Hoffman

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