#avoid

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. ↗

— E. B. White

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You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. ↗

— Steve Ross

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It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting. ↗

— Craig Armstrong

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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

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I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. ↗

— Donald Cram

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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