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Quotes About Avoided

It would be a tough fight for either Scott Quigg and Carl Frampton against Rigondeaux. He's too good for his own good though and that's why he's been avoided.
~ Luke Campbell
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.
~ Laura van den Berg
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
The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
They were miserable at sports, but great at fantasy sports. They avoided fights, but sought arguments.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In summary, serialization is dangerous and should be avoided. If you are designing a system from scratch, use a cross-platform structured-data representation such as JSON or protobuf instead. Do not deserialize untrusted data. If you must do so, use object deserialization filtering, but be aware that it is not guaranteed to thwart all attacks. Avoid writing serializable classes. If you must do so, exercise great caution.
~ Joshua Bloch
Ducks of all breeds with abnormally humped backs should be avoided for breeding purposes since they typically have poor fertility.
~ Dave Holderread
It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
~ Noam Chomsky
There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided.
~ Pete Buttigieg
Innocent and virtuous, she represented the exact type of female he avoided... God, she was a taking thing, even for an avaricious reformer.
~ Karen Hawkins
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.
~ Epictetus
George shrugged and said no more. Nowadays he avoided political discussions with outsiders. They usually had easy answers: send all the Mexicans home, put Hells Angels in the army, castrate the queers. The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.
~ Ken Follett
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
~ Alphonse Karr
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
~ Niall Ferguson
History is full of lessons for how water crises could have been avoided or better managed.
~ Jose Angel Gurria
There was a time when the elder generation was cherished because it represented the past; now it is avoided and thrust out of sight for the same reason.
~ Richard M. Weaver
All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow
~ L. Frank Baum
There are those who believe that fear is an enemy, one that must be avoided at all costs. They run at its first stirrings. They seek shelter from the storm inside the house only to get crushed when the roof falls in. Fear is the most misunderstood of creatures. It only wants the best for you. It will help you if you let it. Isabelle understood this. She listened to her fear and let it guide her
~ Jennifer Donnelly
There are those who believe that fear is an enemy, one that must be avoided at all cost. They run at its first stirrings. They seek shelter from the storm inside the house only to get crushed when the roof falls in. Fear is the most misunderstood of creatures It only wants the best for you. It will help you if you let it in.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
For his entire adulthood and throughout his public ministry in Texas, John R. Rice had avoided talking about the subject of race. He had never, by any published report or in the memory of any of his friends or family members or in any sermon in The Sword of the Lord, attacked or defended the institution of slavery or the subjugation of black people by white people.
~ Andrew Himes
The abolition of the double sanction for a foul in the box is a welcome change. There are times that you cannot help but stop your opponent in the box, with your momentum forcing you to make a challenge. Fouls can't be avoided in that situation but your intention was fair.
~ Philipp Lahm
The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
A death-warrant requires a royal signature. And I signed my own. And if your Great and Virgin Queen should wonder why I signed it, you are to tell her this: There is more living in a death that is embraced than in a life that is avoided across three-score years and ten. And I embrace it-thus!
~ Robert Bolt
Three arguments (triadic) should be avoided where possible. More than three (polyadic) requires very special justification—and then shouldn't be used anyway.
~ Robert C. Martin