#avoid

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided. ↗

— Charles Curtis

#avoided #bias #hand #kept #prejudice

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#avoid #challenging #change #copy #course

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. ↗

— Katharine Graham

#aging #avoid #else #productively #something

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#dope #needle #nixon #only #richard

Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakenly created for themselves. [...] It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos. ↗

— Tim Lott

#depression #faith #identity #anger

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#captain #duty #every #government #much

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Michael McKean

#avoid #becoming #just #me #people

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. ↗

— Richard Neal

#avoid #benefits #burden #certain #designed

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#avoid #been #being #career #grow