Our universal desire to avoid suffering and to be happy is a starting point for establishing ethical principles.

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To avoid suffering the fate of their improvident predecessors, they would invest massively in irrigation and grain storage.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

They say Mr Brown mismanaged the economy, building up a huge fiscal deficit that had to be sorted out to avoid the UK suffering the sort of problems Greece and Ireland have had.

BBC: Gordon Brown warns cuts are a 'great misjudgement'