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He who avoids complaint invites happiness. -- Abu Bakr
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting. -- Mason Cooley
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. -- Richard Reeves
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. -- Steven Weinberg
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. -- Daniel Berrigan
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. -- Horace
How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. -- Judy Collins
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental argument for it. -- Margaret Atwood
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. -- Sigmund Freud
So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want. -- William Kirby
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing. -- Betty Carter
In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs. -- August Krogh
History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate. -- Vint Cerf
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process. -- Larry Harvey
The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless. -- Sharon Salzberg
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill. -- Tristram Stuart
I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done. -- Jeff Lindsay
Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. -- Ai Weiwei
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it. -- James Cromwell
Fluency avoids hard thoughts. -- Mason Cooley
Perfect reason avoids all extremes. -- Moliere
Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
The sage avoids extremity, excess, and extravagance. -- Laozi
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. -- Theodore Parker
Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience. -- Bill Johnson
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it. -- Publilius Syrus
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it -- Publilius Syrus
The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance. -- Laozi
Blessed is he or she who avoids being offended. -- Marvin J. Ashton
Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty. -- Laozi
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good. -- John of the Cross
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Albert Einstein
He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers. -- Marcus Aurelius
She avoids mirrors, and lifts a powerful telescope to find herself. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. -- Evan Esar
You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors. -- Janusz Korczak
The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors. -- Evan Esar
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. -- Albert Einstein
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.... -- Dieter Rams
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. -- Joseph Addison
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison. -- Gautama Buddha
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic -- Patricia Meyer Spacks
One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it. -- Frantz Fanon
Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks
A Superwoman isn't a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much. -- Shirley Conran
He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself. -- Sathya Sai Baba
If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses. -- Nelson Shanks
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids. -- Aristotle
Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls. -- Bobby Knight
An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes. -- Warren Buffett
My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. -- Taryn Simon
She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy. -- Alex Shakar
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. -- Aristotle
We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems. -- Prem Rawat
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. -- Arthur Cayley
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully... -- Samuel R. Delany
A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. -- Sun Tzu
Everything that liberals want they call a civil right. This avoids them having to argue about it and puts the halo around the issue. -- Ann Coulter
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness. -- Maimonides
All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!! -- Abdul Kalam
I am a social outcast, shunned by society. Nobody ever invites me to parties. My own birthday avoids me, and only comes around every two years. -- Jarod Kintz
I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones. -- Penn Dayton Badgley
He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. -- Leo Tolstoy
An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness. -- Sun Tzu
Collective problems must be solved by all of us, collectively, and no one finds inner peace who avoids doing his or her share in the solving of collective problems. -- Peace Pilgrim
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject. -- Plato
I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral". -- Richard Marshall
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate. -- Socrates
My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors." -- Rania Attieh
If patience is how love reacts in order to minimize a negative circumstance, kidness is how love acts to maximize a positive circumstance. Patience avoids a problem; kidness creates a blessing. -- Stephen Kendrick
Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz. -- Frederic Raphael
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem". -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety. -- Woodrow Wilson
I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides. -- Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. -- Rose Macaulay
The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them. [Ger., Die Menschen furchtet nur, wer sie nicht kennt Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald verkennen.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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