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• I’ve done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can’t use it for progress.

  Hans Rosling

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• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  Hans Rosling

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  The thing writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

  Alan Dean Foster

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• I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.

  Im Dong Hyun

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• I’ve always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

  Boyd Rice

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• I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

  Boy George

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  I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

   

  Blythe Danner

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  I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at everyone, and yet to avoid all eyes.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  I will not steal a victory. The end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue.

  Alexander The Great

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• Gossip, even when it avoids the s*xual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  Patricia Meyer Spacks

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• If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

  Francois Rabelais

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• You can’t force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we’re looking for interaction.

  Page McConnell

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  There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

  Aristotle

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• And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

  Trip Hawkins

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• Hyperbole is something I’d better avoid.

  Terry Gilliam

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• There’s certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  Famke Janssen

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• I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

  Demetri Martin

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• Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn’t want to do what my parents did, you know?

  Corbin Bernsen

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• I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

  Timothy West

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• Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

  Tim Russert

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