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• It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Men, Thinking

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• The faithful witness, like...Socrates, Voltaire, and Swift and Christ himself, is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent...He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.

  John Ralston Saul

  People, Faithful, Causes

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• One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Taken, People

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.

  Zicheng Hong

  Mean, Joy, Taoism

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• [The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.

  Sol LeWitt

  Beautiful, Artist, Play

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• It is quite possible that we will soon come to live under some sort of global despotism, enlightened or not. This is not a nice prospect. And there is only one way of avoiding that this happens: to establish a global democracy. And it is not too late to strive for such a democracy, of a straightforward populist nature, where people on the globe elect a world parliament, which in turn elects a world government.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Nice, Government, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario.

  Pope Francis

  Pregnancy, Medical Problems, Evil

  In-flight interview from Mexico to Rome, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

  Pope Francis

  Pregnancy, Evil, Absolutes

  "Pope suggests contraception can be condoned in Zika crisis" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

  Walid Muallem

  Army, Cities, Enemy

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Many people are probably better off avoiding therapists and using the resources and support available to us in everyday life. But therapy can be a chance to think things through with a professional in a calm, supportive and nonjudgmental atmosphere, and that can be helpful.

  Peter Kinderman

  Thinking, People, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two facts. One, that they didn`t even understand the base of their own party, white working class voters who you know what, don`t care about tax cuts for the rich, really aren`t interested in the things that the elite part of their party want, including immigration reform. And number two, they spent eight months avoiding finding opposition research to use against the guy who was becoming the front-runner in their party that they don`t want.

  Chris Hayes

  Party, Cutting, Numbers

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

  Seth Klarman

  Investment Success, Important, Facts

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• Warren Buffett likes to say that the first rule of investing is "Don't lose money," and the second rule is, "Never forget the first rule." I too believe that avoiding loss should be the primary goal of every investor. This does not mean that investors should never incur the risk of any loss at all. Rather "don't lose money" means that over several years an investment portfolio should not be exposed to appreciable loss of principal.

  Seth Klarman

  Believe, Mean, Loss

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• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

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• Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Children, Kids, Issues

  "Chris Hemsworth: Charlize Theron and Jessica Chastain Hazed Me Harder Than My Brothers". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Goal, Enlightenment, Separation

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• Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

  Ralph Marston

  Fighting, Done, Way

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• He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

  John of the Cross

  Prayer

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• When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary for your growth - those that serve your soul and help you continue to thrive - from those that do not.

  Rod Stryker

  Soul, Growth, Desire

  "Yoga and Your Soul’s Four Desires" by Rod Stryker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Nice, Numbers, Guy

  Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Misery, Predicaments

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• Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

  Liz Miller

  Art, Pain, Yoga

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• As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to our clients for a quarter century-a dollar invested at inception in our largest fund is now worth over 94 dollars, a 20% net compound return. We have achieved this not by incurring high risk as financial theory would suggest, but by deliberately avoiding or hedging the risks that we identified.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Return, Clients

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• I`ve got to get a shoutout to, who`s the "BuzzFeed" reporter, he`s amazing at finding stuff. You have Donald Trump talking about his experiences having casual sex as his own personal Vietnam, avoiding an STD, like no one.

  Chris Hayes

  Sex, Talking, Vietnam

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  People, Hospitality, Method

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