Avoidable Quotes

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I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all… — Tony Abbott
The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that… — Jeremy Clarkson
How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced… — Adolf Hitler
All too often a familyâ€™s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our… — Alfred Korzybski
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of oneâ€™s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or… — Marilyn Frye
There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly… — B. C. Forbes
Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly… — Shalom Auslander
No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one… — Frank Dobson
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by… — Karl Popper
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to… — Eugen Herrigel
A risk is a risk because it's avoidable. — Erica Bauermeister
It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it… — Alice Miller
In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the… — Zig Ziglar
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles,… — Peter Singer
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of… — Jeffrey Kluger
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts… — Winston Churchill
Also, I feel that crying is almost--like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever-- totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1.Don't care… — John Green

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