Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.