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• A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins of "omission" as well as "commission." You can feed, clothe, and house your kids and not really parent them. When we raise kids for selfish reasons (to feel proud, to have people love us and appreciate us), if they disappoint us we'll pull back. But when we realize that God has called us to raise godly children and God is always worthy to be obeyed, we have a motivation that goes beyond our own pride and our own comfort.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Motivation, Children, Selfish

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Procrastination, Tasks, Prioritize

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Years, Embarrassing

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• There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

  Errol Morris

  Interest, Vested Interests, Seeing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie. But I don't see the fight as a clash of civilizations. Rather, we must focus on avoiding exactly this type of conflict. We have to return to dialogue, to mutual understanding and to an acknowledgement of freedom of opinion.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Believe, Fighting, Civilization

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Speaks Out, Singing

  "Barack Obama address on civil rights in Selma, Alabama - full text", www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2015.

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• We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Running, Long, Be Kind

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• How can a man find a sensible way to live? One way and one only- Philosophy. And my philosophy means keeping that vital spark within you free from damage and degradation, using it to transcend pain and pleasure, doing everything with a purpose, avoiding lies and hypocrisy, not relying on another person's actions or failings. To accept everything that comes, and everything that is given, as coming from that same spiritual source.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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• Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

  John C. Bogle

  Mistake, Successful, Looks

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• Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

  William Tyndale

  Wise, Jesus, Men

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• I really find myself doing a lot better when I'm injured, so sometimes I look forward to it. This is the style that I play-being physical, running the football, making adjustments on the pass, avoiding the rush. Those sorts of things go with the total package of a quarterback.

  Steve McNair

  Football, Running, Play

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• The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

  Mardy Grothe

  Successful, Secret, Forgiving

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• Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

  Douglas Crockford

  Language, Programming, Programmers

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.1, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Should, Emphasis, Wastage

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

  Steve Redgrave

  Race, Natural Instinct, Humans

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• In my personal life I'm very conservative. I've been married to the same person for nearly 50 years, I'm scrupulous about paying bills, avoiding debt. I'm very careful. But as an actor I'm pretty reckless. I've done a lot of things that, when I see myself on screen, I have to shut my eyes. And I've made a whole bunch of movies that nobody sees, including me.

  Christopher Walken

  Eye, Years, Actors

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy.

  Kevin Drum

  Crazy, Military, Weakness

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• There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

  Francis Bacon

  Superstitions

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Superstition'

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• Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility.

  James Redfield

  Responsibility, Way, Blame

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• If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

  Gordon Smith

  Communication, Air, Favors

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• Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.

  Joan Cusack

  Men, Needs, Avoiding Life

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.

  Omar Zuniga

  Culture, Way, Emotion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

  Cyril Connolly

  Ends

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• I tried to be really healthy and eat whole and organic as much as possible. I think that's the key to avoiding crazy weight gain.

  Molly Sims

  Crazy, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

  Peter Drucker

  Accomplishment, Risk, Important

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