Avoids Quotes
102 quotes by 92 authors
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The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all…
— Albert Schweitzer
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...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a…
— Michael Faraday
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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The perfect way is without difficulty, for it avoids picking and choosing. Only when you stop liking and disliking will all be clearly understood. Be…
— Sengcan
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Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make…
— Frederic Raphael
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If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness.
— Maimonides
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The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions.…
— Frederick Lenz
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There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates…
— Horace
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
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Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the…
— William James Mayo
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Abdur Rab offers a comprehensive vision of Islam using the Quran as his sole religious textual source. He intentionally avoids the hadith literature, which he…
— Jeffrey Lang
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There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids…
— Socrates
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He alone is a redeemed being who causes no pain to others and avoids pain to himself.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Good planning avoids the need for fixing up a project that plowed ahead without thought... about potential pitfalls.
— Bobby Knight
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our…
— Sigmund Freud
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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
— Mason Cooley
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