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• It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Speech, Today

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

  Philip Bobbitt

  War

  "The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History". Book by Philip Bobbitt, 2002.

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• By the age of fifteen, I had convinced myself that nobody could give a reasonable explanation of what he meant by the word 'God' and that it was therefore as meaningless to assert a belief as to assert a disbelief in God. Though this, in a general way, has remained my position ever since, I have always avoided unnecessarily to offend other people holding religious belief by displaying my lack of such belief, or even stating my lack of belief, if I was not challenged.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Religious, People, Giving

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• Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?

  Eugene Mirman

  War, Tragedy, Politics

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• Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Men, Way, Influence

  Endorsement added to letter, received 29 July 1875.

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• I hated the mirror and avoided it as much as I could. A glimpse would only remind me: I'll never be normal again.

  Lauren Scruggs

  Mirrors, Glimpse, Normal

  "‘Still Lolo’: How I Learned To Appreciate True Beauty" by Lauren Scruggs, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2012.

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• One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.

  Fady Joudah

  Art, Eye, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Writing, Insignificant Things

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mistake, Appearance, Natural

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Analysis of Mind”, p.187, Bertrand Russell

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• Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.

  Booker T. Washington

  Two, Might, Habit

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• The cost of an on-site inspection team would be minuscule compared to war, Saddam would have no choice except to comply, the results would be certain, military and civilian casualties would be avoided, there would be almost unanimous worldwide support, and the United States could regain its leadership in combating the real threat of international terrorism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Real, War

  "Carter: Iraq threat does not justify war", www.cnn.com. January 31, 2003.

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• Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Needs, Tools

  Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall (1993). “Arnold”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Country, Believe, Eye

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• As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Needs, Our Actions

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• I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.

  Fred Hoyle

  Sorry, Memories, Wrath

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• What can be avoided
  Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Ends, Mighty God

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.427, BookCaps Study Guides

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• An American should be able choose to work in a place where he is with his kind of people and not find that at the counters, desk or benches they will be forced to work, side by side, with all types of people of all races; that in the lunchrooms, rest rooms, recreation rooms, they will be compelled by law to mingle with persons and races which all their lives they have by free choice, avoided in social and business intercourse.

  Strom Thurmond

  Race, Law, People

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• It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

  E. M. Forster

  Fate, Sound, Looks

  E. M. Forster (2014). “Great Novels of E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howards End”, p.656, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

  Sigrid Undset

  Education, School, Class

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The illusion of purpose is to be avoided. The illuion of lack of purpose is to be avoided.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Purpose, Illusion

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• Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.

  Shantideva

  Pride, Evil, Suffering

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• Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.

  Edward Teller

  Hands, Tragedy, Clean

  Edward Teller, Allen Brown, Jr. (1975). “The Legacy of Hiroshima”, Greenwood Press

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• Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Years, Enlightenment

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• If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Destiny, Enlightenment

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• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Effort, Flesh

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.331, CUA Press

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