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• Obama avoided the Vietnam draft with a letter from his family doctor diagnosing him as medically eight.

  Stephen Colbert

  Doctors, Eight, Vietnam

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• Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

  William Penn

  Nature, Vow, Resolution

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.41

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• There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

  Winston Churchill

  Errors, Virtue, Nationalism

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Learning, Men

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

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• Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Exercise, Everyday, Doe

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• A well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

  George Mason

  Army, Gun, People

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• When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all sorts of situations which could be avoided through knowledge of ourselves.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Life, Awakening, Facts

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• You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What I mean is that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to the gallows, you could draw me to any death, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided, you could draw me to any exposure and disgrace. This and the confusion of my thoughts, so that I am fit for nothing, is what I mean by your being the ruin of me.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Mean, Men

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.345

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• Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Eye, Light

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]”, p.73

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• The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Emotional

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• The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election . . . They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Mean, Distribution Of Power

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.109, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Divorce, Garden

  "Critique of Judgment".

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• Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Mistake, Failure

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• In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Evil, Might

  "The Rambler".

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• My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

  Isabel Allende

  Father, Alarms, Body

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• I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, People, Busy

  Alice Hoffman (2010). “Green Angel”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Cost, Should

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• Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

  Francis Quarles

  Worry, Literature, May

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.87

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• There was no reason for Bella Swan to cross paths with me. She would be avoided like the plague she was.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Swans, Would Be

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• Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
  'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Weakness, Lament

  1592 Margaret. HenryVI PartThree, act 5, sc.4, l.37-8.

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• If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and fans who appreciate her talent and admire her as a person. But then, why would Broomfield have opened up his film to those of us who work with Courtney and are close to her when there are so many bitter left - behinds and desperate attention - seekers eager to validate his attack on her character? Inquisitors in every age, scared of forceful women, have used all kinds of half - baked testimony to whip up chants of 'Burn the witch!'

  Edward Norton

  Character, Appreciate, Age

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• I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

  Richelle Mead

  Color, Alcohol, Alchemist

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.113, Penguin

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• Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

  Laozi

  Humility, Reputation, Should

  Laozi, Lie zi, Léon Wieger, Derek Bryce, Zhuang zi (1984). “Wisdom of the Daoist Masters: The Works of Lao Zi (Lao Tzu), Lie Zi (Lieh Tzu), Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu)”

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• Imitation has to be avoided. Understanding should be the only law, never imitation.

  Rajneesh

  Law, Understanding, Imitation

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• It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mothers Day, Mom, Fathers Day

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