The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)
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[Many of these thoughtless, stupid remarks are uttered by sports figures, but not all. In 2002 Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said the United States could have avoided what he called] all these problems, ... All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches.
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It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.
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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
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Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Fath...
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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History is the sum total of all things that could have been avoided.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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A danger foreseen is half-avoided.
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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...
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Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Work
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War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
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By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
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Responsibility for political conditions thousands of miles away can no longer be avoided, I think, by this great Nation. Certainly I don't wan...
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Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
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