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• Talking Taboo is a groundbreaking book. This chorus of bold female voices is presenting the church with an opportunity to engage real but all too frequently avoided or unseen issues impacting countless Christian women today. Their candid essays cover a wide spectrum of perspectives. Readers will resonate with some and be shocked by others. Talking Taboo took courage to write. Reading taboo takes courage too. So buckle up and brace yourself for an eye-opening but vitally important read!

  Carolyn Custis James

  Christian, Real, Book

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• There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Character, Risk, Suffering

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• I read a great deal, avoided the comapny of the children in school who seemed superfical, and fell in love with nature.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, School, Rama

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• This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

  Gary Bettman

  Nhl, Wish, Could Have Been

  "NHL cancel remainder of the season". www.cnn.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Everyone knew fear. It was the reaction that made the difference. Some people hated fear and avoided the experience. Some people endured it as a necessity. And some people became addicted to the rush.

  Janet Evanovich

  Fear, Differences, People

  Janet Evanovich (2009). “Metro Girl”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• I don’t think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and now especially I see it happening to me I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible.

  Miley Cyrus

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

  "Hannah Montana: The Movie - Miley Cyrus interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Kindness, Grateful, Long

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• You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.

  Mark Strong

  Jobs, Past, These Days

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided. They have a more evolved consciousness and can affect your attention field greatly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Meditation

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• Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Believe, Men

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• Bless his heart, I have respect for Mitt Romney, but I do not have respect for what he has done through this debt increase debate. He did this. He waited until it was a done deal that we would increase the debt ceiling, and more money would be spent, more money borrowed and then spent on bigger government. And then he came out and he made a statement, that he didn't like the deal after all. You know, you can't defer an issue and assume that the problem is going to be then avoided.

  Sarah Palin

  Heart, Issues, Government

  "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2011.

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• So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Mistake, Technology, Hands

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• The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Sensual, World

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• The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

  Jennifer Beals

  Directors, Cost, Stories

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• First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenceless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments in the community to be avoided.

  Patrick Henry

  Military, Past, Men

  "Additional Letters From The Federal Farmer", 169, 1788.

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• Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it could be sustained by unmemorable ones, provided that the texture of the accumulated jottings avoided the sound of failed poetry.

  Clive James

  Memorable, Poetry, Sound

  Clive James (2014). “Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.

  Publilius Syrus

  Folly

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• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  World, Glitter, Sparkle

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• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Government, Two, Effort

  "US unemployment: some lessons in sharing from the Great Depression" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.

  Publilius Syrus

  Cry, Endure

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• To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

  Orrin Woodward

  Live Life, Issues, Wanted

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• A battle avoided cannot be lost.

  Sun Tzu

  Battle, Lost

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• The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Sensual

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• I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

  Michael Douglas

  Dad, Actors

  "Michael Douglas: 'I am consumed with being a father'" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky

  Taken, Army, Views

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