#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

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#every #impossible #journalism #journalist #moral

But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#avoided #because #depression #down #economists

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#because #companies #how #initially #involve

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ↗

— Denis Healey

#between #difference #evasion #prison #tax

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

— Abbie Hoffman

#dope #needle #nixon #only #richard

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #behind #beyond #campaign #defensive

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#going #i #much #places #poverty

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

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government