#avoid

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word. ↗

— Ford Frick

#insist #last #sarcasm #word

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

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The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

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I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#i #places #politics #ropes #televisions

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college. ↗

— Danica McKellar

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