#avoid

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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I didn't avoid my problems. I just didn't feel as though I had to focus on them every minute of every day. And telling people about certain aspects of my life would only create trouble. If I was guilty of anything, it was of trying not to bring new problems into my life. That wasn't avoidance. That was logical thinking. ↗

— Mara Purnhagen

#life

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love. ↗

— P.D. James

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Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#fire #hurt #love #pain #love

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#decisions #ideas #life #significance #thinking

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. ↗

— Malcolm X

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Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. ↗

— Mary Astell

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He who avoids complaint invites happiness. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#complaint #happiness #invites #who

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. ↗

— Joey Adams

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