#void

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#avoiding #each #equals #means #offense

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. ↗

— Tim Allen

#area #avoid #comment #end #large

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ↗

— Fred Allen

#become #being #celebrity #dark #glasses

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

— Joyce Appleby

#avoid #contention #creating #discourses #inseparable

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

— Aristotle

#avoid #pain #pleasure #secure #wise

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

— Rudolf Arnheim

#avoiding #boredom #entertainment #means #more

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. ↗

— Kemal Ataturk

#artists #cannot #devoid #existence #full

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

#animal #animal life #avoiding #beasts #bodily

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. ↗

— Avicenna

#essence #every #find #form #infants

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#argument #avoid #burns #experiment #fire