Avoid Quotes

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If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take… — Thomas Merton
There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from… — Henri
You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy… — Michael Medved
Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he was… — Kathryn Tucker Windham
With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner.… — Catherine Austin Fitts
If you choose not to act, you have little chance of success. Whatâ€™s more, when you choose to act, youâ€™re able to succeed more frequently… — Katty Kay
Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger. — Dave Barry
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve… — Trip Hawkins
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc. — Charlie Munger
Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like. — Charlie Munger
Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in… — Robert Byrd
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be… — Garrison Keillor
We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society. — Abraham Lincoln
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain… — Alice Hoffman
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that… — Lev Grossman
That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend… — Robert W. Firestone
Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to avoid… — Henry Edward Armstrong
From the prophets' dreams of the time when nations would beat their swords into plowshares to today's aspirations of a nuclear-weapons-free world, we have sought… — David Saperstein
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. — George C. Williams
Hyperbole is something Id better avoid. — Terry Gilliam

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