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Avoidance

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The greater the love, the more false to its object,
Not to be born is the best for man;
After the kiss comes the impulse to throttle,
Break the embraces, dance while you can.

W. H. Auden

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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.

Mark Twain

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It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

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Thus Belial with words cloth’d in reason’s garb
Counsel’d ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth,
Not peace.

John Milton

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But war’s a game, which, were their subjects wise,
Kings would not play at.

William Cowper

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