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• Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.

  Charlie Munger

  Loyalty, Thinking, Political

  USC Law Commencement Speech, genius.com. May 1, 2007.

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• If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

  Enoch Powell

  Nuclear, Cost, Use

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• Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies.

  Adolf Hitler

  Enemy, Thank God

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Acceptance, Keys

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• Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Glory, Communion With God

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1928-29”, p.72, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must be abandoned. Anything in my habits or ways which mars happy fellowship with the brethren or robs me of power in service, is to be unsparingly judged and made an end of-'burned.' Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Spiritual, Mars, Occupation

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1928-29”, p.72, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I don't wanna be a rock star. I don't believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I've avoided that really well.

  Ted Nugent

  Stars, Believe, Rocks

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• To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Pain, Cost, Opinion

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• Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Issues, Pressure

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• One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

  Winston Churchill

  Hyphens, Regard

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• To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Cost, Merit

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I studiously avoided all so-called "holy men." I did so because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. I would have felt it as a theft had I attempted to learn from the holy men and to accept their truth for myself. Neither in Europe can I make any borrowings from the East, but must shape my life out of myself-out of what my inner being tells me, or what nature brings to me.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Europe, Shapes

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• The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

  Noam Chomsky

  Survival, Democracy, Essentials

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, 1992.

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• In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Sight, Mystery

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1759, Delphi Classics

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• Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you - this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders (obeying fate) - that's how difficult it is!

  Burton Watson

  Moving, Fate, Order

  Burton Watson (2003). “Zhuangzi: Basic Writings”, p.57, Columbia University Press

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• Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Law, Justice, Contentment

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• In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Fields, Administration, Favoritism

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.918, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided them. My parents always told me that you do not make fun of anybody, and so I didn't see anything funny about it.

  David C. Driskell

  Fun, Real, Differences

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I am quite convinced that we need to increase the resources that go to municipalities if we want the municipalities to do the things the Constitution and the law say they must do. It can't be avoided.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Law, Needs, Want

  Source: www.gov.za

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• You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Epidemics, Aids Epidemic

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Effort, World

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Being a girl didn't really affect me until I entered junior high and had to wear skirts, curl my hair, and even get used to panty hose. However, my hatred of panty hose helped make me a writer who only wears comfortable clothes. I've successfully avoided panty hose for most of my life.

  Louise Erdrich

  Girl, Clothes, Hair

  "Louise Erdrich’s War Of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

  Juliette Lewis

  Song, Thinking, Singing

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Creating, Middle East, Libya

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up.

  Esther Smith

  Fighting, Age, Battle

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