Avoid Quotes

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I hide my true feelings to avoid causing you trouble or pain, I act strong to show you that I'm not unreliable, I hold my… — Harriet Morgan
The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our… — Arthur David Ritchie
People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes. — Noah Weinberg
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy. — Walther Nernst
Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or… — Louise Wilson
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented… — Thomas Nagel
Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your… — Hal Higdon
A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed this practice to… — Sidney W. Fox
Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement… — Dogen
We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training… — Midge Decter
Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me. — Thomas a Kempis
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end. — Al-Ghazali
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death… — Sogyal Rinpoche
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the… — Sogyal Rinpoche
The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes. — Andrew Harvey
Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for… — Timothy J. Russert
We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence... — Shakira
In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify… — Nhat Hanh
There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to… — Norm MacDonald

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