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• Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite grown accustomed to tourists. You still feel a genuineness that no longer exists in countries where tourism has been industrially developed.

  Henning Mankell

  Country, Long, People

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

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• True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Beauty, Thinking, Expression

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• When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, Trying, Lines

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• How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Bored, Littles

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• The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ideas, Enemy, Separation

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.788, Wordsworth Editions

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• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

  Sydney Pollack

  Views, World, Conservative

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• I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

  Fan Bingbing

  Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Regret, Tough, Grotesque

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

  Suzy Amis

  Children, Vocabulary, Other Cultures

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• I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fire, Soldier, Diplomats

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• How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that journalists are not accustomed to covering a candidate who moves crowds the way Obama does, who uses speech cadences and rhythm like Martin Luther King Jr. without making his talk explicitly about race. Sen. Clinton already owned the policy-wonk slot, so by default, Obama was cast as the poetic one.

  Howard Kurtz

  Kings, Inspiration, Moving

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• For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Hands, Too Much

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Return Of Merlin”, p.426, Random House

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• I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

  Demian Bichir

  Fearless, Risk, Directors

  "The Tarantino Actor". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

  Eric Drooker

  Artist, Cracks, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.

  Eric Drooker

  May, Littles, Rooms

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

  Rafael Correa

  Giving, Advice, Havens

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  Ambrose

  Heart, Light, Joy

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• I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.

  Tina Modotti

  Expression, Gone, Want

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• It's a very different experience shooting in 3-D because the camera rigs are so large. Everything we've become accustomed to in the last ten years as filmmakers, which is cameras getting smaller and smaller and you can just throw them on your shoulder and stick them in a car and do whatever you want, you can't do any of that now. You're forced to put things on dollies and track and cranes.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Years, Different Experiences, Track

  Source: collider.com

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• We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Memories, Eye, People

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• We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Loss, Miracle, Competition

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• Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.

  Aristotle

  Character, Men, Feelings

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• Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Italian, Cities

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• I travel, work, suffer my weak health, meet with a thousand difficulties, but all these are nothing, for this world is so small. To me, space is an imperceptible object, as I am accustomed to dwell in eternity.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Space, Suffering, World

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