Avoid Quotes
2552 quotes by 1849 authors
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We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really…
— Stephen Schneider
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Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.
— Donald A. Norman
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.
— Kage Baker
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Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have…
— Adam Schiff
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Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The…
— Nikola Tesla
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Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the…
— Brian D. McLaren
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Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a…
— Linda Ronstadt
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Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane…
— Bob Herbold
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We crave a world of either/or, but the Dream says, Both/and. We build a wall between our social persona and our inner selves; the Dream…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that…
— Oscar Romero
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Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An…
— Howard Gardner
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We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you…
— Joan Halifax
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America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into…
— Tom Morello
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You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
— Renzo Piano
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Of course, there are dangers in religious freedom and freedom of opinion. But to deny these rights is worse than dangerous, it is absolutely fatal…
— Harry S. Truman
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously…
— Grover Cleveland
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