Avoiding Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Vegetables, Fruit, Meat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Important, Energy, Drains

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• Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Thinking, Practice

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• Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Art, Intelligent

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• Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Keys, Practice

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• Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses.

  Leigh Newman

  Pain, Feelings, Energy

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• Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult to change. These relationships are complex and have long histories. Lifetime habits of avoiding being really present with each other may exist in many of them. Family members, for instance, might want to support you, but will not necessarily know how to genuinely listen or be present with you in a way that is enlivening. . . . Even with the best intentions, it can be very difficult to get beyond the past and into the Now.

  Richard Moss

  Relationship, Past, Support You

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• If you're living life from a place of fear, you're not free to take risks or pursue your dreams. If your energy is expended in avoiding failure or rejection, then that energy is used to stay safe, instead of being available to create the life you envision.

  Lauren Mackler

  Dream, Fear, Live Life

  "Manage Fear So It Doesn’t Manage You" by Lauren Mackler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

  Mark Dever

  Steps, Doctrine, Hell

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• The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Worry, Debt

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• It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.

  Chinua Achebe

  Believe, Writing, Artist

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• We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.265, Transaction Publishers

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• I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Yoga, Buddhism

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• We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Criticism, Making A Difference

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