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«One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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«Mrs Upson had two fur coats and two chins. Mr Upson had two chins, two passions-gold and business-and two aversions, Roosevelt and Jews.»
Author: Patrick Dennis
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aversions, chinned, chins, coats, fur, fur coat, Mrs, Roosevelt, take it on the chin
«My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.»
«If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
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aversion, aversions, feigning, humiliation, incompetent, in public, namely, orders, performs, privately, ritual, solemnly, sympathy, unhesitatingly
«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.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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art form, aversion, aversions, conventional, criticized, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, distinction, enjoyed, enjoyment, sharper, significance, The Social, uncritically
«Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
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Faith
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aversion, aversions, consisted, dominating, enduring, impetus, mightiest, scientific, scientific knowledge, shake, succumbed, succumbing, succumbs, upheaval, upheavals
«Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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aversion, aversions, conformity, conspiracies, conspiracy, creators, customs, members, names, on request, realities, reliance, request, requested, self reliance
«I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.»
«Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it»
«Man seeks joy in far off places and peace in quiet spots; but the spring of joy is in his heart. the haven of peace is in himself. Even when he walks on the moon, man has to take with him, his fears, his anxieties, his prejudices and his pet aversions.»
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