Avoiding Quotes - Page 19

• The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

  Mark Zandi

  Holiday, Payroll Tax, Numbers

  "A 40 Percent Chance of Economic Doom". Interview with Elizabeth Weingarten, www.slate.com. October 18, 2011.

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• If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

  Boethius

  Nobility, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 559-560, 1922.

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• Unexplained pain may sometimes direct our attention to something unacknowledged, something we are afraid to know or feel. Then it holds us to our integrity, claiming the attention we withhold. The thing which calls our attention may be a repressed experience or some unexpressed and important part of who we are. Whatever we have denied may stop us and dam the creative flow of our lives. Avoiding pain, we may linger in the vicinity of our wounds, sometime for many years, gathering the courage to experience them.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Integrity, Years

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• Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

  Albert Camus

  Eye, Skills, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.61, Vintage

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• We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

  Joko Beck

  Running, Hurt, Pain

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• When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

  David Allen

  Inspirational, Needs, Feels

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• What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

  Sam Keen

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

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• Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet potatoes, and shop the periphery of the grocery store, avoiding the middle aisles full of processed and higher-priced foods.

  Cat Cora

  Sweet, Meals, Bags

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• Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Sin, Discipleship, God's Will

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• I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

  Deborah Bull

  People, Dancer, Energy

  "Nutrition" by Kate Smith, www.ascendingstardance.com.

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• Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down her book and stared at him. "Amazingly enough, the whole world doesn't revolve around you, Reid. Lori's sister is sick and Lori took her to the doctor. She'll be back in an hour or so. Can you survive on your own until then, or should I call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance?

  Susan Mallery

  Book, Grandmother, Doctors

  Susan Mallery (2012). “Sizzling”, p.71, Harlequin

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• Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Years, Ducks

  "A puritan at play" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2008.

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• Speaking the Lord’s name with reverence must simply be part of our lives as members of the Church... we do not use foul language. We do not curse or defame. We do not use the Lord’s name in vain. It is not difficult to become perfect in avoiding a swearing habit, for if one locks his mouth against all words of cursing,... he is en route to perfection in that matter.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Names, Perfect, Church

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• Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Stupid, Intelligent

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• The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

  Socrates

  Death, Philosophy, Soul

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• [The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe.

  John M Swomley

  Religious, Years, Europe

  John M. Swomley (1987). “Religious liberty and the secular state: the constitutional context”

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• It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Risk, Important

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• Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.

  Neal Barnard

  Loss, Soda, Kidneys

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• He asks how the evil is to be remedied. I tell him that there seems to be little chance for avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy; that the only ground of hope must be the morals of the people, but that these are, I fear, too corrupt.

  Gouverneur Morris

  People, Evil, Littles

  Gouverneur Morris (1888). “The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris: Minister of the United States to France ... Etc”

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• When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself.

  Duane Elgin

  Pain, Loss, Pleasure Seeking

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• Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenaged boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws. tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation, rather than avoiding it.

  Jason Whitlock

  Boys, Car, Safety

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

  Ed Wynn

  Years, Age, Calendars

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• An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Challenges, Hiv

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• If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Life Is Short, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

  Steven Callahan

  Goal, Challenges, Risk

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