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«An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy»
Author: Benjamin Stolberg | About: Knowledge | Keywords: avoids
«A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal»
«Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.»
Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks | About: Gossip | Keywords: avoids, erotic, faint, flavor
«Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.»
«How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.»
«Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids»
«Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.»
«Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.»
«Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison»
«Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.»