#avoid

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

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An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#handicap #his #intellectual #lowering #mundane

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#american politics #anything #avoidance #issues #politics

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#bringing #into #joy #pain #pieces

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. ↗

— Tim Russert

#avoid #cuts #freeze #iraq #money

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#benefits #cutting #economic #entering #europe

I think it is tragic that a situation should arise where civilians on any side are killed. But it is almost a cliche to say that it is virtually unavoidable and this isn't unique to us alone. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#alone #any #arise #civilians #cliche

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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