#avoid

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#crying #him #laugh #man #must

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. ↗

— George Sutherland

#amount #avoid #cannot #decrease #doubted

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

— Eric Allin Cornell

#being #came #conversely #doing #good

You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.' ↗

— Rosario Dawson

#because #being #catalyst #coming #down

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#avoided #dark #imagination #meet #memory

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it. ↗

— Hector Elizondo

#cookie #destiny #find #fortune #me

I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#avoid #choice #i #into #locking

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth. ↗

— Robert Trout

#allocation #any #argued #avoiding #best

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#assassination #avoid #being #commit #government

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#everybody #everything #kept #knows #looking