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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Joy
Sympathy
Destiny
About
Only
Know
Sorrow
Learn
Does
Person
Anything
Themselves
Avoid
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Linus Torvalds
Work
Intelligence
Ability
Doing
Done
Getting
Avoid
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.
Matt Lucas
Depression
Me
You
Yourself
Enemy
Busy
Want
Inactivity
Avoid
Keep
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.
R. D. Laing
Life
Great
Great Deal
Pain
Only
Perhaps
Deal
Trying
Avoid
Avoided
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
R. Lee Ermey
Respect
Share
Fair
Fair Share
Doing
Canada
Any
Avoid
Who
Draft
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Wisdom
Day
You
Suffering
Light
Will
Mistakes
Making Mistakes
Think
Say
Alive
Insight
Throughout
Concentration
Make
Making
Then
Creating
Should
Avoid
Keep
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
You
Man
Speak
Mind
Will
Ready
Always
Your
Avoid
Base
Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face.
Xi Jinping
Nature
Reality
Will
Face
Exploitation
Haunt
Costly
Laws
Only
Observing
Return
Any
Inflict
Blunders
Mankind
Us
Avoid
Eventually
Harm
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
Alan Thicke
Fitness
Needs
Perceived
Subconsciously
Avoid
Games
Fun
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Democracy
People
Dangerous
Sometimes
Opportunity
Dictatorship
Think
About
More
Gives
Could
Parody
Blatant
Because
Doing
Than
Anything
Avoid
Don't get old, if you can avoid it.
Billy Graham
You
Old
Get
Avoid
We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.
Charles H. Townes
Life
You
Age
Mind
Active
Way
Adjust
Stay
Some
Longer
Demands
However
Continue
Fantastic
Much
Use
Your
Avoid
Aging
Things
Muscles
A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial.
David A. Bednar
Unwanted
Other
Beneficial
Appropriate
Guide
Sewing
Jobs
Variety
Facilitate
Pursuits
Knitting
Model
Wood
Pattern
Patterns
Uniformity
Used
Productive
Avoid
Help
Activities
Waste
Wide
Wide Variety
Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Best
You
Regret
Will
Circumstance
Simply
Do Your Best
Any
Your
Avoid
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
Life
Dark
Glasses
Become
Recognized
Wears
Well
Well Known
Known
Celebrity
Person
Being
Famous
Then
Hard
Avoid
Who
Works
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
Jennifer Aniston
People
Sometimes
Walls
Power
Evolve
Through
Push
Ya
Hit
Order
Them
Next
Next Level
Avoid
Brick
Who
Level
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
Johnny Depp
You
Hate
Word
Whatever
Everything
Paranoid
Fame
Done
Want
Use
Avoid
Shy
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
M. Scott Peck
Behavior
Organization
Responsibility
Power
Own
Other
Our
Some
Seek
Give
Entity
Individual
Attempting
Whenever
Then
Means
Avoid
Away
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho
People
Opportunity
Mistakes
Situation
Warrior
Other
Recipes
Worst
Slip
Never
Make
Opinions
Were
Acting
Prematurely
Avoid
Strategic
Unique
Each
Letting
Two
Treats
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
War
Matter
Try
Fire
Endeavor
Duty
Our
Inquiring
Ourselves
Must
Brought
Shall
Fired
Take
House
Within
Without
Still
Whether
Place
Avoid
Whom
Actually
Defend
Extinguish
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois
Too Much
Too
Enough
Possess
Must
Having
Wit
Witty
Much
Avoid
Sufficient
We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud by assuring they don't get nominated in the first place - and we can't do that until we infiltrate the party, beginning at the most basic levels.
Dana Loesch
Power
First
Party
Beginning
Filtering
Liberal
Assuring
Local
Local Level
Out
Bud
Most
Until
Nominated
First Place
Proverbial
Get
Infiltrate
Candidates
Place
Them
Avoid
Basic
Level
Levels
I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
David Ogilvy
Other
Marketing
Cash
Only
Purposes
Tendency
Factor
Advertising
Clients
Mix
Whenever
Avoid
Whom
Raid
Awkward
Marginal
Need
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
You
Happy
Miserable
Enough
Way
Only
Wonder
Being
Leisure
Whether
Avoid
To allow injustice and inequality invites a Ferguson to your community. We must stand together, black, white, brown, red, and yellow and fight for justice and equality for all. It's the only way to avoid more Fergusons.
Jesse Jackson
Justice
Injustice
Together
Fight
Equality
Black
White
Community
Way
Must
Brown
More
Only
Allow
Red
Invites
Inequality
Ferguson
Yellow
Stand
Your
Avoid
The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.
John Clare
Best
Good
World
Nothing
Action
Difficulty
Way
Bad
Best Way
Like
Doing
Trying
Avoid
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