"When we have an experience -- hearing a……" — Daniel Gilbert

"When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room -- on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage"

— Daniel Gilbert

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You adapt to who you're photographing. — David Bailey
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser. — Wendy Carlos
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In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their… — Herbert Croly
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