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I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

- Ed Harris

Those people who shun us just because of the label we`re on, or the fact that we`ve got a video out there that`s getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren`t keeping an open mind.

- Joel Madden

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.

- Boris Pasternak

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

- George Chapman

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

- Henry David Thoreau

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

- Aaron Lynn

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

- Adam Bednarik

To shun one`s cross is to make it heavier.

- Alexander Nikonov

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

- Alton Greene

He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple - teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep - wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise - follow him.

- Ann Clark