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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

~Adam Gopnik

Topics: Absurd Artificial Being Bit Detachment Enough Invented Life Little Little Bit Quality Secret See Some Tastes The Secret Of Values Way Your

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I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.

~Alex O'Loughlin

Topics: Detachment External Pieces Right Shoulder Tear Tears Three

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Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

~Allen Tate

Topics: Academically Been Cherished Detachment Gather Genetic Theories

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It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Colleagues Days Detachment Died Duty Earliest First Guard Included Levels Line Member Nations Norwegian Palestine People Reality Sad Shot Since Then Toll Undeniable United United Nations

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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

~Bede Griffiths

Topics: Detachment Freedom Makes Men Most Obedience Principle Radical Reason Responsibility Root Self Us

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The essence of the Way is detachment.

~Bodhidharma

Topics: Detachment Essence Way

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I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.

~Ed Westwick

Topics: Attention Come Detachment Doing Everyday Everyday Life Everyday People Family Famous Job Just Life Part People Territory

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Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

~Edward St Aubyn

Topics: Any Any Other Way Been Control Detachment Forces Had How Interests Me No Control Other Over People Product Seeing Way Were

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