Avoid Quotes

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I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced-the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held… — Melissa Bank
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important… — Edward Steichen
To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And… — Fulton J. Sheen
People are beginning to realize that self-knowledge is not an end in itself. It's for the purpose of better relationships, so that we can give… — Jennifer James
Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of… — Wilferd Peterson
To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing… — Baird T. Spalding
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. — H. L. Mencken
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition… — B.F. Skinner
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for… — Rick Falkvinge
I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular. — Mark Twain
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it. — Leonard Bernstein
I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them. — Robert Breault
My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you… — Rajneesh
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of… — Rajneesh

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