Sun Tzu
Military Strategist
"A battle avoided cannot be lost."
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Avoided
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Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."
Michel de Montaigne
Philosopher, Writer
"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."
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"Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided."
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"The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out."
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"I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can."
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"I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure."
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