"To avoid an occasion for our virtues is……" — Robert Louis Stevenson

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• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
• Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United… — Margaret Atwood
• Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid… — Margaret Atwood
• I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid… — Paul Auster
• Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them. — Richard Bach
• I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in… — Christian Bale
• Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams
• My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what… — Martha Beck
• The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it… — Conrad Black
• Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. — William Blake
• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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