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Letter "A" » avoided
«There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.»
«Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace»
«Touch fire and get the sensation of burning; there is nothing like it to teach you that fire is to be avoided. Unless you touch it, you will be aware only of its light. It is both light and heat; just as this world is both true and false; that is to say unreal.»
Author: Atharva Veda
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avoided
«The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
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avoided, condemn, drugs, dumb, emotional, for one, get into, trip
«Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this,»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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avoided, for good, in the public eye, notwithstanding, ostentation, placed, praiseworthy, public eye, Public place, The Public Eye, witnesses
«Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.»
«The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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Destiny
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abandon, avoided, dangers, exceeds, precaution, precautions, torment
«The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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Crime
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avoided, hitting, soft, softly, unforgivable
«There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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avoided, errors, poles, possess, virtues
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