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There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.
I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.
It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.
I'm not avoiding Fox, but they don't seem to want me to be on their shows much. I can't understand that.
I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K.
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
I've been in this position before when you never lose, when your record is clear, people are avoiding you.
Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing
It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
If we lose Saudi Arabia because of sanctions or by avoiding them, they're going to China; they're going to Russia.
It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.
Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.
When I'm afraid of something, I'm going at it twice as hard. I don't believe any fear can be conquered by avoiding it.
I didn't expect to become the guy who people look to do something cool in the Rumble in terms of avoiding elimination.
I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.
I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.
Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.
Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'
The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.
If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.
I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.
It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.
Tenacity is not about avoiding being overwhelmed but being indomitable in the face of the overwhelming odds of your venture's failure.
I'm not avoiding the Tamil film industry because I'm making Hindi films. It's just that I'm extremely busy with Bollywood commitments.
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.