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The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. Robert E. Lee
Wisdom War Sides Unnecessary Both Both Sides Had Practiced Affairs Been Condition Might Avoided
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. Theodore Roosevelt
Crime Softly Never Hit Hitting Avoided Soft
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided. Mae West
Dangerous Cultivate May Curves Your Avoided
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. Napoleon Bonaparte
Better Sometimes Dangers Destiny Abandon Torment Self Often Avoided
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. Theodore Roosevelt
Peace Better Rule Kinds Course Than Far Certain Avoided Wars
Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are. Robert Redford
Sad Life Nature Me Sadness Think Drawn Something Fact Part Like Because Denied Contradictions Should Avoided
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. William Safire
Work Great You Editing Great Deal Find Re-Read Re-Reading Deal Repetition Your Avoided
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
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. Mark Twain
Work Evil Avoided Necessary Necessary Evil
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice. Harold Pinter
Theatre Political Problems Own Disposition Air Characters Must Cost Entirely Objectivity Allowed His Author Taste Essential Confine Different Cannot Them Breathe Prejudice Avoided Satisfy Set Presents
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. Alphonse Karr
Happiness Composed Misfortunes Avoided
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war. Chief Joseph
War Ought Want Avoided
I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me. Hedy Lamarr
Me Women Competition Sometimes Ugly Men Vice Versa Find Because Versa Very Handsome Any Often Vice Really Avoided
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. Ida B. Wells
Vote Satisfied Negroes Menace Spirit Alleged Having Absolute Suppression Been Mob Should Avoided Suffrage Universal Universal Suffrage
It would be extremely naive to conclude anything other than the following: America's most vital secrets are in the hands of our adversaries because Secretary Clinton intentionally avoided using official government communication systems. Mike Pompeo
Government Communication Other Our Secretary Secretary Clinton Extremely Secrets Systems Would Would-Be Vital Following Naive Adversaries Most Because Conclude Clinton Than America Hands Official Intentionally Anything Avoided Using
In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment. W. E. B. Du Bois
Constitution Word Before Carefully States Negroes Constitution Of The United States Fellows Although Referred Amendment Avoided United United States Slave
If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. Albrecht Durer
Art Man Evil Otherwise Himself Idle Happens Much Avoided
The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer. Anat Cohen
Music Sense Jazz Melody Clarinet Some Instead Between Armstrong Israeli Heard Up Dominant Louis Louis Armstrong Listened Avoided Reason Connection Growing Growing Up
The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority. Antonio Guterres
Time Conflict Community Difficult Resources Crises TV More Preventing Prevention Seldom Make Priority Cameras Governments Than Managing Them Much Organizations Avoided International International Community
In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate. Austin Clarke
Silence Mind Will Country State Our Feared Poetry Boundless New Contemplate Days Picturesque Leaves Materialistic Loss Yeats Irish Task Where Which Painful Less Avoided Activity Harder
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing. Barry Eichengreen
Government Result President Hoover Memoirs Promote Pushed His Unemployment Efforts Estimated Much Workers Avoided Reason Many Why Herbert Million Herbert Hoover Two
We avoided injuries that season. It was our fourth year with Vince, so we all knew just what he wanted. And a lot of our core guys were in their prime. It was an incredible season. Bart Starr
Year Incredible Our Guys He Knew Prime Were Lot Just Wanted Avoided Season Injuries Fourth Core
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. Bertrand Russell
Experience Result Word Perceived More More And More Idealism Been Ambiguity Revolt Against Realists Avoided
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war? Bianca Jagger
War You Achieve Think President President Kennedy Crisis Would Had He Missile Look Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis Been Bush Avoided Nuclear Kennedy Nuclear War
If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous. Bill Foster
Home Property Value Three Down Enormous Say Rules Misery Bubble Had Mortgage Housing Been Years Years Ago Up Than Human Just Automatically Cannot Turn Created Required Payment Avoided Larger Amount
Truthfully, I almost avoided 'While You Were Sleeping,' because I find those romantic comedies kind of precious, and they're full of lines that leave you feeling a little bewildered when you say them. Bill Pullman
You Feeling Sleeping Say Those Kind Find Almost Bewildered Comedies Because Leave Were Lines Truthfully Precious Romantic Romantic Comedies While Little Them Full Avoided
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