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"Be neither too remote nor too familiar." »Prince Charles
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"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." »Raymond Lindquist
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"He who comes first, eats first. familiar as First come first served." »Eike von Repkow
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"He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]" »Eike von Repkow
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"It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1
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"I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." »F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey." »Cynthia Ozick
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"Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." »H.L. Mencken
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"After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar." »David Assael
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"Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you." »Saint Francis de Sales
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"The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous." »Shane Leslie
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"Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head." »Ambrose Bierce
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"There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling." »Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215
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"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen." »Aldous Huxley
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"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then" »Henry David Thoreau
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"One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then." »Henry David Thoreau
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"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." »Thich Nhat Hanh
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"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." »Maxwell Planck
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"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." »Max Planck
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"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again." »Margaret Mead
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"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away." »Kenich Ohmae
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"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning." »Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
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"Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." »Winston Churchill
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"People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first." »John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
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"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble." »Peter S. Jennison
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