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• We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Tired

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Teamwork, Football, Real

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

  Oliver Sacks

  Social, Cement, Primal

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• Mindfulness can create a foundation for emotional bonding that allows you to be fully present and authentic during dialogues or a discussion. A mindful approach to entering difficult conversations keeps both parties out of the heat of emotions and able to explore the needs, wants and interests on both sides. Judgement is suspended and, with a strong bond, the mind is able to focus on and look for the mutual benefit of the common goal.

  George Kohlrieser

  Strong, Party, Emotional

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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love, Average, Hands

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• Attachment to a baby is a long-term process, not a single, magical moment. The opportunity for bonding at birth may be compared to falling in love - staying in love takes longer and demands more work.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Baby, Falling In Love, Opportunity

  T. BERRY BRAZELTON, M.D. (1992). “TOUCHPOINTS THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE”

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• I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a woman-identified and woman-directed sexuality and eroticism, as a way of breaking the grip of men on women's minds and women's bodies, of removing women from the chronic attachment to the primary situations of sexual and physical violence that is rained upon women by men, and as a way of promoting women's firm and reliable bonding against oppression. . . .

  Marilyn Frye

  Men, Long, Political

  Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr

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• Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.

  David Nail

  Like You, Stage, Feels

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• I love to try and cook. I'm pretty good, but I'm not saying I'm great. So that's exactly why I wanted to learn from the best. There's a certain type of bonding that happens when you cook with people you love.

  Nina Dobrev

  People, Trying, Type

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Thinking, People

  "“Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”". Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.

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• When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.

  David Eagleman

  Block, Feelings, Brain

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• My father and I used to watch movies all the time. That was our bonding time, so thats when I kind of fell in love with acting.

  Jessica Barth

  Father, Acting, Watches

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• There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.

  Joe Swanberg

  Expectations, Littles, Pressure

  Source: collider.com

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• People do need a social license to go, "Ha ha ha," and have a good time. It's a strange thing. There's a lot of social ritual around comedy and laughter. It's a bonding experience for groups, but nobody can tell you much about how funny somebody is. Sometimes people just need to be in a group and be laughing together, just like they need to be in a group in watching some really terrifying film.

  Dylan Moran

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

  Larry McMurtry

  Past, Media, People

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is still realizable even when early contact is delayed--as it is for many mothers and their prematurely born infants, or when illness of either the newborn or the mother intervenes.

  Julius Segal

  Mother, Attachment, Events

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• [How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance.

  Gerard Butler

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Dragons

  Source: collider.com

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• Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror that bonds us ever tighter to all those who have partaken. The intensity of the experience helps to widen the gulf between us and those who have not shared.

  Clive Barker

  Pain, Taken, Important

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• Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Team, Selfish

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• For Adam, screwed-up bonding thing or not, I’d wait forever. “Really?” he asked in a tone I’d never heard from him before. Softer. Vulnerable. Adam didn’t do vulnerable. “Really what?” I asked. “Despite the way our bond scares you, despite the way someone in the pack played you, you’d still have me?” He'd been listening to my thoughts. This time it didn't bother me. “Adam,” I told him, “I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

  Patricia Briggs

  Waiting, Forever, Listening

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.78, Penguin

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• Commitment. That's what it's all about. Taking that convenant together. Bonding yourselves for all eternity. Isn't that what we are all looking for? Maybe Alexander wasn't ready to do that with me, but it's obvious he isn't ready to do that with you, either.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Commitment, Together, Eternity

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• I didn't know where this stuff was coming from - all of a sudden I was a little magickal sprite, bonding with my stone, feeling my earth roots, la la la... All I can is describe the way it felt. And that was how it felt. So sue me. Was I swaying? I felt like I might be swaying.

  Cate Tiernan

  Roots, Feelings, Earth

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• There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of the rest of their lives.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Princess, Taken

  Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?

  Cassandra Clare

  Matching, Haircuts, I Can

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna make me want to hit you?" He shrugged. "Maybe. But it's the truth. Here goes: kissing back is an instinct. Unless the girl smells like a sewer or has tentacles feeling you up independently, a guy's first instinct is to kiss back. That's how it works. What's important is how long that kissing back lasted. So...how long?

  Rachel Vincent

  Girl, Kissing, Smell

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