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I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. ↗

— Helen Clark

#deeply #detest #distinction #honours #i

My only aversion to vice, is the price. ↗

— Victor Buono

#only #price #vice

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#aversion #cerebral #deep #deep down #down

I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion. ↗

— Peter Thiel

#basically #believe #environmentalism #i #i believe

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#freedom #healing #life #living #motivation

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bordering #closely #i #indifference #regard

Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable. ↗

— Cristina Nehring

#love #risk-aversion #unredeemable #love

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#aversion #both #china #i #i think

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved. ↗