Avoid Quotes
2552 quotes by 1849 authors
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Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Avoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.
— Paul of the Cross
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I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as…
— Martina Navratilova
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Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of…
— Tony Robbins
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Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the…
— William Shakespeare
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The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid…
— Richard L. Evans
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Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up…
— Innocent of Alaska
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It is our duty to give meaning to the life of future generations by sharing our knowledge and experience; by teaching an appreciation of work…
— Paul Bocuse
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When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive humility; (2) Give…
— Choa Kok Sui
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In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of…
— Rupert Everett
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Marriage is a way to avoid intimacy. It is a trick to create a formal relationship. Intimacy is informal. If a marriage arises out of…
— Rajneesh
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It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never grow. Lovers grow,…
— Rajneesh
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As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain,…
— Clifford Geertz
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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
— Horace
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Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change…
— Bob Black
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The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly always…
— John Quiggin
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I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Winning coaches must treat mistakes like copperheads in the bedclothes - avoid them with all the energy you can muster.
— Darrell Royal
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Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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