"People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Attachment Quotes #People Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset.”
“Fruit is definitely on the maintenance diet. It's on the lifestyle diet.”
“for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.”

Source : "Fictional character: narrator". "The Twilight Zone. The Shelter", www.imdb.com. 1961.
“The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream.”
“No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.”

Source : "The Power of Silence: An Interpretation of Life in Its Relation to Health and Happiness".
“Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.”
“I think some of the most celebrated moments in human achievement should be those times when everything is going against a person and they are down in the dumps but they simply choose to get up. That's real greatness!”
“Economics must not be relegated to classrooms and statistical offices and must not be left to esoteric circles. It is the philosophy of human life and action and concerns everybody and everything. It is the pith of civilization and of man's human existence.”

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