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“Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.”
Albert Einstein
“Keeping away from all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impurities.”
Buddha
“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality”
Ayn Rand
“The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.”
Susan Sontag
“Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.”
John D. MacDonald
“That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.”
Horace
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
Contributed by: Maria Green
Mark Twain
“What I've tried to do . . . is create a whole model that got away from test scores and avoided labels like LD (learning disabled) or ADD (attention-deficit disorder), and use a profile of strengths and weaknesses.”
Mel Levine
“Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
Oscar Wilde
“I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.”
David Allen
