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Avoided Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might…
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- History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. — Konrad Adenauer
- The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world… — Albert Einstein
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison
- In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we… — Francois Fenelon
- The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of… — Mark Twain
- Like taxes, radioactivity has long been with us and in increasing amounts; it is not to be hated and feared, but accepted… — Ralph Lapp
- War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of… — Thomas Jefferson