“I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself…”
Source: Wittgenstein's Nephew
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“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”
Source: The Gospel of Loki
“No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.”
Source: Cruddy
As quoted in Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and other big government Republicans hijacked the conservative cause (2006) by Richard A Viguerie, p. 46 <!-- similar to statement previously dated (16 September 2003) — but linked page indicates "interview" by John Hawkins dated 25 February 2012 http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/friedman.php : I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. … because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, "How do you hold down government spending?" Government spending now amounts to close to 40% of national income not counting indirect spending through regulation and the like. If you include that, you get up to roughly half. The real danger we face is that number will creep up and up and up. The only effective way I think to hold it down, is to hold down the amount of income the government has. The way to do that is to cut taxes. -->
Context: I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. … because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. I believe our government is too large and intrusive, that we do not get our money's worth for the roughly 40 percent of our income that is spent by government … How can we ever cut government down to size? I believe there is one and only one way: the way parents control spendthrift children, cutting their allowance. For government, that means cutting taxes.
Letter to Humphry House (11 April 1940). The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters, George Orwell: An Age Like This, 1920–1940, Editors: Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus. p. 530 http://books.google.com/books?id=0j2qODEJkdoC&pg=PA530#v=onepage&q&f=false.
R. H. Dalitz, Fundamental Developments, Nature 314 387–388 (1985).
Travis Parker, Proloque, p. 2
2000s, The Choice (2007)
“Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so.”
Homage to Catalonia (1938)
“Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”