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Tag Name "Familiarity" (160)

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I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.
Feist
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There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
Nobuo Uematsu
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead
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The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.
Muhammad Ali
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
David Nicholls
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Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.
George Santayana
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A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
Honore de Balzac
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The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.
Noam Chomsky
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With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?
Dean Ornish
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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
Alphonsus Liguori
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The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.
Robert Thurman
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If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.
Debra Dean
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Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments.
Philip Larkin
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As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into a small space, proximity leads to familiarity.
Henry Rollins
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We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.
Bell Hooks
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I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.
Binyavanga Wainaina
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Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that and get that down in some way. This is - this is a type of familiarity but a type of radical difference at the same time.
Kehinde Wiley
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian Greene
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Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
Stewart Udall
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
William Shakespeare
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My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited. I would say that during the course of the game, I honestly never - it probably has happened on an incomplete pass or something - but I've never touched a game ball. It's not something I have any familiarity with on that.
Bill Belichick
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I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.
SonReal
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Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.
William Gaddis
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There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
George Santayana
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