If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector. Both subscribed firmly to the longstanding American principle that government should resolutely avoid these kinds of interventions, particularly in the industrial sector.
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.
One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.
We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.
Forget about showering with my fellow students in Tribeca Alternative__ prison-style showers__ne nozzle for four to six girls at a time__n the locker room. It was impossible to work up a sweat during what passed for physical education class at TAHS, so there was no need to shower, anyway.Well, impossible for me, considering that, in the past, whenever a volleyball or whatever came near me,I__ always make sure to step calmly away to avoid it. See? No sweat. No need for a shower. Problem solved.