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Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

Albert Ellis
detachment attachment people
Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with... by Allen Tate

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

Allen Tate
detachment has-beens theory
The essence of the Way is detachment. by Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Bodhidharma
detachment essence way

Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.

Corinne McLaughlin
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detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate fr... by David Levithan

detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.

David Levithan
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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
detachment people way

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Elizabeth Goudge
detachment soul self
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no... by Epictetus

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

Epictetus
detachment attachment self-esteem
Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every gi... by Georg Simmel

Wandering, (is) considered as a state of detachment form every given point in space.

Georg Simmel
detachment states space

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
detachment moments thinking
She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head. by Janet Fitch

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

Janet Fitch
detachment numbness emptiness

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

John Desmond Bernal
detachment development important
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they... by John le Carre

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

John le Carre
detachment childhood monsters

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

Lisa Randall
detachment magic cynicism
...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing... by M. F. K. Fisher

...for me there is too little of life to spend most of it forcing myself into detachment from it.

M. F. K. Fisher
detachment littles

The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

Maria Nikiforova
detachment want people
One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detac... by Marianne Moore

One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

Marianne Moore
detachment conquer creative

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

Marshall McLuhan
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There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude;... by Marya Mannes

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

Marya Mannes
detachment solitude important
Our detachments move us toward freedom and death. by Mason Cooley

Our detachments move us toward freedom and death.

Mason Cooley
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