#avoid

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it. ↗

— Tom Felton

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I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them. ↗

— Lynda Carter

#cheese #dairy #i #i do #like

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. ↗

— Stephen Carter

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An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

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Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin. ↗

— John Chrysostom

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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