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• I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns.

  Guido Westerwelle

  Military, Ideas, Campaigns

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And fourthly there is a major shift in public opinion and attitude to accommodate to the post-9/11 mentality and the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy. I think the public has simply become increasingly accustomed to being turned away from vital information and is protesting less and less. You have some squeaky wheels out there, but I don't think they're representative of the population at large.

  Ted Gup

  Attitude, Thinking, Public Opinion

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

  James Joyce

  Differences, Literature, Youth

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• One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Doe, Realization

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• Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Becoming, Pleasure, Stale

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.178, Penguin

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• In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Thinking, Support

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• Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Calm, Accepting, Supplies

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.366, Random House

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• ather than Eisenstein's fast and hard cutting, I like to hold the shot very still and for longer than we're accustomed to. For me personally as a viewer, this technique invariably causes me to have waves of emotions that I think arise from a profound form of mindful awareness and the feelings that go along with that. I am frequently brought to tears by this kind of existential cinematic technique.

  Jenni Olson

  Cutting, Thinking, Profound

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Life Is, Unusual

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• What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Genius, Pages, Becoming

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• By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

  Ian Hacking

  Legends, Philosopher, Armchairs

  Ian Hacking (1983). “Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason. To regard study as mere receptivity and memory work is to have a most incomplete view of what instruction means.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Memories, Mean, Views

  "How to teach ... philosophy" by Emily Drabble, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2013.

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• [The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

  Steven Spielberg

  Receiving, Stories, Way

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• As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.

  Monica Mcgowan Johnson

  Lying, People, Spirit

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• Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Nice, Fairy Stories, People

  "'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones". Published by HarperCollins, 2005.

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• Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

  Milarepa

  Buddhist, Compassion, Differences

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• Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

  Gene Wolfe

  Science, Mind, Facts

  Gene Wolfe (1997). “The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories”, p.351, Macmillan

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• For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Science, Animal

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• Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

  Heraclitus

  Nature, Science, Natural

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• Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Education, Men, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.218, 谷月社

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• A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

  Johannes Kepler

  Time, Dirty, Feet

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• The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Fall

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• [Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently attempting to originate new ones; considering that, however necessary to the advancement of science, they demanded a great sacrifice of time, and that when the fact was once established, that time was better employed in considering the purposes to which it might be applied, or the principles which it might tend to elucidate.

  Hudson Gurney

  Life, Sacrifice, Science

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• Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

  Henry Margenau

  Science, Unique, Thinking

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