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familia Quotes and Quotations
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Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Joseph Addison | top
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Familiarity breeds contempt. Aesop | top
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Harold Bloom | top
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The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly. John Sherman Cooper | top
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren | top
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Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you. James Galway | top
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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. George Gissing | top
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. Katharine Butler Hathaway | top
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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. Jhumpa Lahiri | top
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I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Charles Lamb | top
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It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with. Joe Lando | top
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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. Jessica Lange | top
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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 | top
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Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. Hugh Mackay | top
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann | top
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There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. William Osler | top
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. Ouida | top
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As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance. Robert Redford | top
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But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. Nicolas Roeg | top
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | top
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It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces. Latrell Sprewell | top
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He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. Henry Villard | top
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I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business. Christopher Walken | top
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One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them. Roy H. Williams | top
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Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand. Jason Zebehazy | top