#void

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. ↗

— Mae West

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You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. ↗

— E. B. White

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You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. ↗

— Steve Ross

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It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting. ↗

— Craig Armstrong

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A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

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