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  • Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

    Bumps   World   Sides  
  • The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.

  • Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

    Peace   Evil   Would Be  
    James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing
  • 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.

    Fighting   Age   Battle  
  • Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.

    Letting Go   Mean   Men  
    Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage
  • I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

    Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.113, Penguin
  • One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

    Believe   Belief   Should  
    Source: deutsche-denker.de
  • This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided.

    Nhl   Wish   Avoided  
    "NHL cancel remainder of the season". www.cnn.com. February 16, 2005.
  • 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.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

    Lying   Love Is   Mirrors  
    "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.
  • Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

    Children   Home   Heart  
  • I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

    Lying   Water   Toasters  
  • To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

    Evil   Spirit   Modern  
  • Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.

    H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd
  • Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

    "Q&A: Daniel Radcliffe, Less Potter Than Ever". Interview with Logan Hill, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2013.
  • Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. Be specially vigilant-or instruct those engaged in the prosecution of fraud to be-against all who insinuate that they have high influence to protect-or to protect them. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

    Men   Way   Influence  
    Endorsement added to letter, received 29 July 1875.
  • Cot-death is no longer a problem of clinical medicine, but is one of medical politics. We have long had the knowledge and experience as to how these unnecessary deaths can be avoided. In the meantime.. to prevent your offspring from becoming a SIDS statistic just make sure that its daily intake of ascorbate from conception on is sufficient. Under this regime the neonate is so robust and healthy that there has never been a case of SIDS among these ascorbate corrected infants, not even a case of respiratory distress during birth.

    Medicine   Long   Healthy  
  • Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

  • Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar asked, and Halt shook his head. "No. I want her badly damaged but capable of making it back to port. I want the word to go out that the strange ship with the red falcon ensign"—he gestured to Evanlyn's ensign, flying from the mast top—"is manned by dangerous, hairy maniacs with axes and is to be avoided at all costs." "That sounds like us," Gundar said cheerfully.

    Axes   Flying   Cost  
  • If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

    Buddy Wakefield (2011). “Gentleman Practice”, p.13, SCB Distributors
  • He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box.

    Lying   Heart   Flames  
    Stefan Zweig (2008). “Burning Secret”, p.7, Pushkin Press
  • Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to the some of the victims, I think we could have avoided a lot of this if the Church had humbly apologized to them, but we tried to bully some of them. I pray the victims are healed.

    Thinking   People   Bully  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers.

    Art   Pain   Safety  
  • 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.

    USC Law Commencement Speech, genius.com. May 1, 2007.
  • Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

    Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion
  • It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later.

    Thinking   Joy   Feelings  
    Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. June 4, 2012.
  • No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.

    Eye   Vampire   Buckets  
    Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Guilty Pleasures: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.7, Penguin
  • One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness.

    Cost   Dull   Avoided  
  • At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

    Age   Trying   Pitfalls  
    "Jennifer Carpenter: I’m ready for Deb to learn Dexter’s secret". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 15, 2011.
  • The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

    Sin   Payment   Avoided  
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