Avoided Quotes - Page 18

• Movies that are consciously life-affirming are to be consciously avoided.

  Pauline Kael

  Life Affirming, Affirming

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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• It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Proportion, Blight, Centralization

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

  Bruno Schulz

  Cost, Dull, One Thing

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• The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Evil, May

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.308

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