#avoid

The payment for certain sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#certain #delayed #payment #sins

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #behavior #consequences #desire #difficulty

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #neurosis #non-being #way

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#complexity #fools #geniuses #ignore #pragmatists

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#avoid #believe #guilt #led #pays

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#break #first #fool #glass #looking

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#assigned #avoid #been #categories #could

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#hit #hitting #honorably #never #possible