Avoided Quotes - Page 17

• A battle avoided cannot be lost.

  Sun Tzu

  Battle, Lost

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• The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Sensual

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• The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Sensual, World

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• First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenceless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments in the community to be avoided.

  Patrick Henry

  Military, Past, Men

  "Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer", 169, 1788.

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• Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

  Clive James

  Memorable, Poetry, Sound

  Clive James (2014). “Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

  Publilius Syrus

  Folly

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• You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

  Publilius Syrus

  Cry, Endure

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• History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Government, History, Historical

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• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Destiny, World, Mystery

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Goal, Target

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2006.

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• I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Lure

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• Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Thinking, President

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

  Chief Joseph

  War, Want, Ought

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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

  Beauty, Men, Competition

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

  Suze Orman

  Cost, Students, Loan

  "Suze Orman Warns Against Private Student Loans, Yet Teaches at University of Phoenix" by David Halperin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2014.

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• The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.

  Thomas Pogge

  Average, People, Giving

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.

  Melinda Gates

  Pregnancy, Voice, Impact

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.

  Steve Erickson

  Thinking, Wind, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you have the desire, if you establish the goal - which is harmony, which is happiness through liberation- then these stages of revolt, of war, of struggle, can be avoided - should be avoided. You are not going to wallow in the gutter if you can jump over it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Struggle, Goal

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.

  Sara Coleridge

  Would Be, Waste, Arguing

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge”, p.136

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• I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool.

  Roseanne Barr

  Reality, Kind, Deals

  "A candid Q&A (is there any other kind?) with Roseanne". Q&A with Craig Wilson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. January 3, 2011.

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• The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Snakes, Circles, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.

  Pauline Kael

  Life Affirming, Affirming

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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• It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Proportion, Blight, Centralization

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

  Bruno Schulz

  Cost, Dull, One Thing

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