"I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it."
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"This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages."
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"Attachment comes only where we expect a return."
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"As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery."
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"If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation."
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"Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment."
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"All misery and pain come from attachment."
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"The emotional attachment you get with a client or the music fan allows you access to do a lot of things."
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"Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth."
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"Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path."
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"All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet."
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"Attachment is the source of all suffering."
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"The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom."
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"I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters."
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"Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle."
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"I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages."
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"... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
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"She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced."
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"My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment."
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"Identification prevents and perverts the flow of thought-feeling."
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