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Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'

~Elaine Sciolino

Topics: Attachment Been Bicycle Bikes Device First French German Giving Had Historically Invented Name Romantic Though Thought Who

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I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

~Eric Maskin

Topics: Attachment Harvard Strong

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

~Erich Fromm

Topics: Attachment Egotism His Indifferent Love Love Is Loves Only Other Others Person Symbiotic

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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: Agreed Attachment Desire Emotional Experts Faith Friends Fulfill History Most People Priests Religion Spiritual Spoken The History Of Understanding Who

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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: About Attachment Concerned Even Fiction Fiction Writer He Lack More Poor Rich Seems Than Writer Writes

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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

~Gary Zukav

Topics: Appropriate Attachment Compassion Empowered Enough Heart Loving Others Outcome Say Without

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Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.

~Gary Zukav

Topics: Ability Act Attachment Choices Compassion Compassionate Courage Empowered Exceptions Experience Give Heart Love Made Only Outcome Shocking Truth Without You

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I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Apple Attachment Deep Emotional Grew Had Loved Machine Up

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The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Ability Attachment Barrier Biggest Change Choices Climate Climate Change Dealing Great Habits Hard Ignore Our Own Park Shift Uncomfortable Us

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

~George Eliot

Topics: Affection Altogether Attachment Faults Heaven Ignorant Long Our Us

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