Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust"
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Epictetus
Philosopher
"Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions."
Nina Simone
Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
"That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die."
Karl Kraus
Playwright, Journalist
"The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity."
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"Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them."
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"The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics."
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"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."
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"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."
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"Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion."
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"The virtue in most request is conformity."
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"No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die."
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"I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked."
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"One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice."
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"Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about."
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"I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion."
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"I have a congenital aversion to failure."
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"I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones."
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"I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own."
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"I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy."
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"Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love."
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