#avoided

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. ↗

— Mae West

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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war. ↗

— Chief Joseph

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I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

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The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided. ↗

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. ↗

— Todd Solondz

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