"Take death for example. A great deal of……" — Ray Kurzweil

"Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it."

— Ray Kurzweil

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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation. — John Cleese
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We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them.… — Shakti Gawain
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. — Arthur Helps

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