#avoid

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#captain #duty #every #government #much

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Michael McKean

#avoid #becoming #just #me #people

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor. ↗

— Mario Monti

#europe #means #new #north #old

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#encounter #even #events #hide #in the past

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. ↗

— Richard Neal

#avoid #benefits #burden #certain #designed

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#avoid #because #certain #cool #cup

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #away #behavior #entity #give

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#avoid #founded #land #taxation

I didn't avoid my problems. I just didn't feel as though I had to focus on them every minute of every day. And telling people about certain aspects of my life would only create trouble. If I was guilty of anything, it was of trying not to bring new problems into my life. That wasn't avoidance. That was logical thinking. ↗

— Mara Purnhagen

#life