I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument— and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes.
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Related The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. DALE CARNEGIE I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to grac... ANTHONY BOURDAIN The only way to avoid that is to get something done in the Congress. JUAN ROMERO The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump. BOYLE ROCHE I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one. MORRISSEY The best way to resolve a problem is not to try and avoid it. NOEL CLARASó The beauty is that you avoid an operation, you avoid general anesthesia, you avoid surgical incision... BRUCE A. PERLER The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest r... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. FRANCIS BEAUMONT The best way to avoid disappointments is not to have expectations. JIM GENOVESE Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have ... STEVE JOBS Confess yourself to heaven: Repent what's past; avoid what is to come WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. HENRY DAVID THOREAU There is no way to avoid a natural disaster from occurring. You can, however, take action to avoid t... CAROL CHASTANG Under current law, the only way an airline can avoid burdensome pension costs is by entering bankrup... DUANE WOERTH Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the... V.E. SCHWAB Sometimes there is only one reason to complete a task,
but thousands of excuses to avoid it. KAZERONNIE MAK You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And th... STEVE ROSS The best way to avoid pointing fingers is to join hands. JUDITH HENDERSON Prices rose 4 cents today (in San Diego), and that is not unusual lately. There is profit-taking; no... CAROL THORP The best way to overcome temptation is to avoid the tempting situation. UNKNOWN There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR It is not the fear factor that makes me want to avoid Cameroon. It is a tactical matter. It is best ... HENRI MICHEL The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK The best way to avoid a cesarean is to stay out of the hospital. BROOKE SANDERS PURVES The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world l... JOHN CLARE The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas. ALBERT EINSTEIN To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes; the price that you have to pay is often too high. ERALDO BANOVAC What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have ... STEVE JOBS Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have ... WALTER ISAACSON There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argum... SAUL BELLOW There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argumen... SAUL BELLOW Are you come to meet your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the ... DENIS WAITLEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES One step at a time. Focusing on the next step is the best way to avoid overwhelm. DAN O'DONNELL It was a tactic to avoid the rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. The government has been ... JEFFREY HARRIS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one; anal... JOHN RAWLS The best revenge to get on your distractors is taking the high road. Avoid playing their game, follo... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid bur... TARON EGERTON In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or c... MATT MULLENWEG There will be significant tuition increases behind this. There is no way to avoid that. GEORGE PRUITT This is expected to be one of the worse hurricane seasons, and so far they're right and we're only h... HANS OLSEN It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and... KIM IL-SUNG Change is inevitable. You can't avoid it. The best thing to do is accept change,
learn from it, and ... HELEN SCHUCMAN To avoid drama and the crowd, you must avoid drama and the crowd. TROY GATHERS The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed. EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is re... MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better... SHIMON PERES Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try. HENRY SPENCER Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It's not that success is guaranteed that we go to war. It's because it is the only alternative we ha... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If I didn't know better, I would think that you were just making definitions up in an ad hoc manner ... GREG ERWIN The process of arriving at the tuition was different this year.... The conclusion was that ... there... GREG HAND Certainly loss of innocent lives is something that anyone putting together an operation tries to avo... CINDY MOORE We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well. PETER KREEFT Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible. JOANNE HARRIS Confess yourself to heaven,
Repent what's past, avoid what is to come,
And do not spread the c... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government ... HARRY BROWNE The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders ... RICK BASS [Democrats voiced their argument that Bush is too extreme on abortion for most voters.] Republicans ... JOE ANDREW It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains. DAVID PERLMUTTER There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them. SHINYA YAMANAKA That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I thin... MARTHA STEWART To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life. OSHO Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when y... DON MIGUEL RUIZ Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's har... NICK HARKAWAY Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine proble... EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA The mere fact that death is inevitable makes it impossible to avoid it. MORAKENG SEKGOKA When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... DEYTH BANGER Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up bei... DARYL HALL The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid... E. B. WHITE The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid... E. B. WHITE I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury... LAURIEANN GIBSON Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not t... ELI ATTIE I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to fo... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe unt... KENNETH L. PIKE It's one of those tough things. Had we been able to avoid doing it, we would have. CARL WALZ The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS There are two things that corrupt a man: money and women. Working to avoid it is great wisdom. VIKRANT PARSAI Right now there is an influx of people coming in right after work and that is a hard situation to av... DEBBIE MARTINEZ Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wa... YANN TIERSEN Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. ELAINE ST. JAMES Everybody wants attention and admiration. Nobody wants to be criticized. The sweetest sound in the E... ALICE SCHROEDER Deep down behind those hostile eyes was a very little girl who had already learned that life really ... TOREY L. HAYDEN Deep down behind those hostile eyes was a very little girl who had already learned that life really ... TOREY L. HAYDEN Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. LIONEL SHRIVER I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous. ALAN PARKER Avoid those who would take what is yours to use as the like. STEVEN REDHEAD To avoid starvation is the only excuse for working. MARTY RUBIN If you would not spend time looking at it, do not ship it. One of the best quality assurance rules o... LAURA BUSCHE Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot... SALVADOR DALI Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot... SALVADOR DALí
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