"Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at……" — Alice Munro

"Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions."

— Alice Munro

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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment… — Walter Benjamin
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. — Emile M. Cioran
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark
Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs. — Hillary Clinton
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply… — John Dewey
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for… — Eckhart Tolle
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in… — George Santayana
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion. — Joseph Addison
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families… — George Washington

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