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“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.” quote by Anonymous — Download Open image

“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.”

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Im sorry I ever tried...

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Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.

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The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much.

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She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your…

Charlotte Eriksson

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No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering…

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for…

H. P. Lovecraft

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Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Rebecca Goldstein

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“Subhuti, someone might fill innumerable worlds with the seven treasures and give all away in gifts of alms, but if any good man or any good woman awakens the thought of Enlightenment and takes even only four lines from this Discourse, reciting, using, receiving, retaining and spreading them abroad and explaining them for the benefit of others, it will be…

Siddhārtha Gautama

I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic…

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In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery…

Salvatore Quasimodo

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

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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

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What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it.…

Felix Frankfurter

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