Avoid Quotes
2552 quotes by 1849 authors
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To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat.
— Gautama Buddha
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Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is…
— Rajneesh
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In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark. Of…
— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
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I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to…
— Tony Kushner
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I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
— David Hilbert
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We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of…
— Thomas Keneally
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Theatre, film and television are all modes of storytelling, and many of us are fortunate enough to move freely among them without feeling that we've…
— Theresa Rebeck
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We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.
— Vincent de Paul
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We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our…
— Vincent de Paul
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Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.…
— Vincent de Paul
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Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had…
— Julia Glass
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid…
— Kaley Cuoco
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I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a…
— Louis Agassiz
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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid…
— B.F. Skinner
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Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.
— Troy Vincent
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If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon…
— David Abram
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If you have a little inteligence, sooner or later the question is bound to arise: What is the point of it all? Why? It is…
— Rajneesh
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I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid…
— Richard Bach
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