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• What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

  Erica Jong

  Eye, Men, Eight

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

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• Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Eye, People

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• To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search out totally new ways to anchor ourselves, for all the old roots - religion, nation, community, family, or profession - are now shaking under the hurricane impact of the accelerative thrust. It is no longer resources that limit decisions, it is the decision that makes the resources.

  Alvin Toffler

  Impact, Anchors, Roots

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• True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Agreement, Law, Trying

  "De Re Publica" by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Clinton W. Keyes, Book III, Section (22), 1928.

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• To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, War, Mean

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• The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles, the woman's right to vote, and so on I would argue that if what is at stake is securing life as we know it, then there can be no bigger struggle that we face.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Struggle, Democracy, Slavery

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• There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely.

  Tony Blair

  Taken, Essence, Doubt

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.

  Camille

  Sex, Night, Light

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• May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Negative, May

  Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?

  Plato

  Pain, Reason, Pleasure

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.6136, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Empathy, Consciousness, Biosphere

  Jeremy Rifkin (2010). “The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis”, p.616, Polity

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• There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

  Andrew Jackson

  Views, Ideas, Liberty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World Government, Law

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• The ever-present expectancy of death is never far removed from any of us - whether we realize it or not. None of us can avoid it. It comes alike to the great and to the unknown; to the righteous and to the unrighteous. Wherein we differ is not in our ability to avert it, but in the preparedness with which we meet it. At such times some question the judgments of God. Some find bitterness because of the circumstances and because of the seeming untimeliness of death.

  Richard L. Evans

  Bitterness, Realizing, Judgment

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• In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.

  Emil Fackenheim

  Men, Evil, Tragedy

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• Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Yarn, Clothes, Pjs

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• People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

  David Chalmers

  Eye, People, Hoping For The Best

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• The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Men, Airports, Cities

  "Meaningful Agreement: Obama Says ‘A First Step’ Climate Deal Has Been Reached In Copenhagen" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

  Hafez

  Hopeful, Faces, Bones

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• It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Class, White

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.

  Edith Wharton

  Fate, Feelings, Spontaneity

  Edith Wharton (2001). “Summer”, p.138, Electric Book Company

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• Maxilan, darling." Locke raised one eyebrow and smiled. "I knew you were driven, but I had no idea you could smoulder. Come, take me now! Jean won't mind; he'll avert his eyes like a gentleman.

  Scott Lynch

  Eye, Ideas, Gentleman

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.181, Del Rey

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• We called the new [fourth] quark the "charmed quark" because we were pleased, and fascinated by the symmetry it brought to the subnuclear world. "Charm" also means a "a magical device to avert evil," and in 1970 it was realized that the old three quark theory ran into very serious problems. ... As if by magic the existence of the charmed quark would [solve those problems].

  Sheldon Lee Glashow

  Mean, Science, Evil

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• By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Home, Parent

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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