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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. ↗

— George Burns

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The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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I often work by avoidance. ↗

— Brian Eno

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I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. ↗

— Edward Tufte

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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ↗

— Alice Walker

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