"An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane……" — Richard Reeves

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• If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids… — Margaret Atwood
• He who avoids complaint invites happiness. — Abu Bakr
• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. — Daniel Berrigan
• A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined… — Sun Tzu
• Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands,… — Sun Tzu
• The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the… — H. L. Mencken
• Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy. — Albert Einstein
• Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain. — Theodore Parker
• Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality… — Arthur Cayley
• For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately… — Carlos Castaneda
• Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. — Horace

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