"Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the……" — Harriet Martineau

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• This weapon the atomic bomb has added an additional responsibility-or, better, an additional incentive-to find a sound basis for lasting… — Leslie Groves
• Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a… — Louis C. K.
• Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance. — Dan Greenburg
• We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors… — Ihab Hassan
• In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method… — Edward Condon
• Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse. — Umar
• ...probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not… — Andrew Revkin
• Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not… — Robert Staughton Lynd
• My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice… — William Zinsser
• The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of… — Shlomo Breznitz
• We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. — Marilyn Ferguson

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