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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
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In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
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It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Pensees (1669) -
Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
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Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence.... Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
Letter to John Adams, 17 June 1782 -
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
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The importance of anything in the world is precisely the importance which we attach to it ourselves.
The maxims of Marmaduke -
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956) -
There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
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With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.
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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
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