Avoid Quotes

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My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice. — Garry Kasparov
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going… — Charlie Munger
A man goes through many changes in 2000 meters. Some are not very pretty. Some make you hate yourself. Some make you wonder if you've… — Brad Alan Lewis
The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are… — Laozi
The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in the Tao, all… — Laozi
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and… — Mary Astell
Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been… — Joyce Maynard
I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs… — Robert Mapplethorpe
Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still… — Ramana Maharshi
...one cannot actively help a woman to give birth. The goal is to avoid disturbing her unnecsessarily. — Michel Odent
Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may… — Spencer W. Kimball
I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not,… — Amy Tan
One of the surest ways to avoid even getting near false doctrine is to choose to be simple in our teaching. — Henry B. Eyring
In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and… — Douglas MacArthur
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.… — Alexander Hamilton
You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula. — George Wells Beadle
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid… — Kenneth Lee Pike
If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk… — Richard M. Nixon
Environmental historians . . . insist that we have got to go . . . down to the earth itself as an agent and presence… — Donald Worster
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in… — Mark Twain

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