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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

~Adam Mansbach

Topics: Attachment Brother Hard Imagine New Novel Novels Open Sent Time Up Work You Your

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My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.

~Adoniram Judson

Topics: Acquaintance Always Attachment Closer Different Diminishes Does East Fire First Happen Indeed Missionary Object Our Preference Set Six Star Views Were Years Years Ago

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My son was five months old, and I built a makeshift studio in my living room so that I could do the attachment parenting approach and write the record at the same time. That was fortuitous, that we could build that in the house.

~Alanis Morissette

Topics: Approach Attachment Build Built Could Five Fortuitous House Living Living Room Months Old Parenting Record Room Same Same Time Son Studio Time Write

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I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

~Alberto Manguel

Topics: Any Anywhere Attachment Been Birth Certain Could Give Happened Justify Me Mind Mother Never Place Really Reasons Thankfulness Towards Understood

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It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

~Alexander Mccall Smith

Topics: Allowing Attachment Basic Certain Civic Danger Generation Growth Losing Me No Sense People Really Seems Sense Sight Society Values Who Whole

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If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.

~Alphonsus Liguori

Topics: Acted Attachment Break Bring Confidence Draw Earth God He His How Life Love Loving More Often Out Recall Sinful Still Strengthen Things Toward Tried Way Which Wish You Your

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The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

~Andrew Cohen

Topics: About Attachment Being Ego Excitement Feeling Female Identification Part Path Special Ultimately Unique Were Woman You Your Yourself

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One of the challenges of innovation is figuring out how to wipe your mind clean about what you should be doing at any given moment, and not having a religious attachment to what's gotten you there thus far.

~Andrew Mason

Topics: About Any Any Given Moment Attachment Challenges Clean Doing Far Figuring Given Gotten Having How Innovation Mind Moment Out Religious Should Thus Wipe You Your

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I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Attachment Bad Because Book Celebrity Cult Following Get Know Novelists People Person Personal Read Some Strange Successful Them Think Truly Where Would I Think

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In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

~Andrew Sullivan

Topics: Attachment Compatible Freedom Freely Homosexual Human Human Freedom Live Many Right Ways

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