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• With overwhelming military strength now deployed against him and with intense monitoring from space surveillance and the U.N. inspection team on the ground, any belligerent move by Saddam against a neighbor would be suicidal....If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Team, Moving

  "Carter: Iraq threat does not justify war", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

  David D. Burns

  Way, Situation, Best Way

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• The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.

  Paul Fussell

  Class, Facts, Weight

  Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

  Simone Elkeles

  People, Argument, Painful

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Talking, Way, Nine

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

  Kate Burridge

  Different, Causes, Interest

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• If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

  Peter Watts

  Believe, Heart, Odds

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• The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Trying, Roles, Looks

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• Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.

  Faith Evans

  Careers, People, Goes On

  "Faith Evans talks about her drug arrest on new single" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. April 05, 2005.

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• Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

  Brandon Mull

  Self, Sometimes, Destruction

  Brandon Mull (2012). “Seeds of Rebellion”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

  Kristin Cashore

  Opportunity, Felt

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.137, Penguin

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• Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• I don't think this is a situation where you can say that Congress was avoiding any mention of the tax power. It'd be one thing if Congress explicitly disavowed an exercise of the tax power. But given that it hasn't done so, it seems to me that it's - not only is it fair to read this as an exercise of the tax power, but this court has got an obligation to construe it as an exercise of the tax power if it can be upheld on that basis.

  Donald Verrilli Jr.

  Exercise, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I thought Trent should get over his pixy paranoia and admit he had an eerie attraction to them, like every other pure-blood elf I’d met. So he liked pixies. I liked double-crunch ice cream, but you didn’t see me avoiding it in the grocery store.

  Kim Harrison

  Ice Cream, Blood, Eerie

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• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Animal, Class

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• If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.

  Rene Descartes

  Errors, Clarity, Judgment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Pregnancy, Joy, Way

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• All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Evil, Mind, Three

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• For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

  Karl Lehmann

  Would Be, Fundamentals, Matter

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• I'm not avoiding your question on my relationship to the fashion world or my work being shown in a fashion setting. My work's most often seen in the streets on billboards. I don't know if it being seen in a shop is any much different.

  Robert Montgomery

  Fashion, Different, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Escaping, Denial

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• The peril of this century is spiritual apathy. As the body requires sunlight, good food, proper exercise and rest, so the spirit of man requires the sunlight of the Holy Spirit; proper exercise of the spiritual functions; the avoiding of evils that affect spiritual health, that are more ravaging in their effects than typhoid fever, pneumonia, or other diseases that attack the body.

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Exercise, Men

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• I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?

  Veronica Roth

  Years, Two, Leader

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• Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Bears, Done

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• Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sports, Language, Excellent

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