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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ↗

— Aristotle

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Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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