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Tag Name "Familiar" (729)

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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
James A. Garfield
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Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I asked the man next to me the name of the station where we had just stopped. He replied, I've been riding this line for fifteen years and I only know two stops: where I get on and where I get off.
James Keller
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People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
Neil Postman
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You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.
Danny Elfman
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Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
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As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.
Sefi Atta
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
James Boswell
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Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.
Adam Leipzig
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When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity and interrelation, is alive and familiar, full of humanity. The very stones seem talkative, sympathetic, brotherly.
John Muir
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Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
Jason Biggs
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Been having a fight with your blankets, Septimus? A familiar voice echoed down the chimney. Looks like you lost, the voice continued with a chuckle. Not wise to take on a pair of blankets, lad. One, maybe, but two blankets always gang up on you. Vicious things, blankets.
Angie Sage
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Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
Samuel Johnson
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When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.
Roger Housden
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.
Michael Ondaatje
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Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few.
Benjamin Disraeli
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When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.
Peter Senge
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Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.
Denis McDonough
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It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it.
Rene Descartes
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Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn off. Don’t’ allow that sense of a miracle to slip away. Don’t get so familiar with each other that you take one another for granted.
Joel Osteen
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I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.
John Hawkes
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I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.
Alan Ball
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Be civil to all serviceable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin
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Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can.
Charles Handy
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If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.
Henry David Thoreau
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