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• The one Spirit of life is given different names, the sacred names. We more easily recognize the Spirit of life by the particular name to which we are accustomed. So far we are right, but the mistake we make, and it is to our loss, is to ignore or deny the same truth because it is given to us in another form and under another name. We limit it. We say the truth existed only in that period when certain teachers came to the world, and that after that it stopped.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Teacher, Mistake, Loss

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• Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Hot, Baths, Deals

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• There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,--for the root is faith,--I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Class, Roots

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Eye, Thanks

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• The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Civilization, Events

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• When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.

  Jon Stewart

  Transition, Scene, Persons

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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. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Girl, Art, Children

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• This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior.

  William Mapother

  Hate, Decision, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We make the commitment to stop for a moment and look at what the mind is doing, what mind state we are dwelling in. We don't judge it, we just know it. Gradually we'll become more and more accustomed to being conscious of what we're thinking and our various positive and negative states. We'll become more and more the masters of our mind, rather than the slaves.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Commitment, Thinking, Dwelling

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

  Max Lucado

  People, Culture, Attention

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

  Nat Hentoff

  Long, People, Amendments

  Source: www.rutherford.org

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• Most parents are accustomed to dealing with problems in the heat of the moment.

  Ross W. Greene

  Parent, Heat, Problem

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Conservative, Surprise, Politician

  Source: progressive.org

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• [Students] are also accustomed to having quick access to information. The idea of "storing" data in their heads can seem pointless. I find that they are also much more interested in learning through problem solving and group collaboration than in the past.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Past, Data, Ideas

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

  Edward Greenspon

  Accountability, Democracy, Analysis

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a fighter pilot asked me if I wanted to go up on a flight in a single-engine plane. I always had a fear about being in an airplane, but I took this opportunity to go up on my first flight in a single-engine rather than a big commercial plane I was accustomed to. I was hooked and made a commitment to become a pilot. I wanted to motivate others to not let fear stand in the way of their opportunities.

  Jessica Cox

  Crazy, Airplane, Commitment

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Being an actress, you are accustomed to learn to do so many things... You learn how to dry your hair, curl your hair and do your nails. Sometimes, just for fun, I have someone come in to do my nails, but I like to do them three times a week. If I went out to have them done, then I would spend my life at the hairdresser's and that I can't afford.

  Sophia Loren

  Fun, Hair, Nails

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• My own opinion is that the suburban project is over. We are done. We don't know it yet. For about five years or so the people who deliver all that crap - developers, realtors, various money people - have kicked back waiting for the system to get going again, to resume all their accustomed behavior. They wait in vain. They just haven't figured out that we face a new disposition of things.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Years, People, Waiting

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I just want a man -a real, two-balled masculine guy -and there aren't many of them around, believe me. But I do want somebody my own age, and somebody who has brains enough to keep me interested and to earn enough money to support me in the style to which I've become accustomed.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Real, Believe, Men

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• Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts, my cousings of both sexes. So ever so often the police came and took them away, indiscriminately. Well, the fact that they arrested both my father and mother, both my grandfather and grandmother, both an uncle and an aunt, made me accustomed to looking on men and women with the same eyes, on an absolute plane of equality.

  Indira Gandhi

  Mother, Sex, Uncles

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse.

  Dale Jamieson

  Class, People, Screw Ups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think because I do model for brands but it's never without input, ever. With AG I front their campaign, and obviously designed the collection for them. I did the same back in the day with Madewell. Even with Longchamp, there's a certain amount of collaboration on deciding on photographers and stuff like that. It's something that I'm accustomed to doing behind the scenes.

  Alexa Chung

  Thinking, Behind The Scenes, Input

  "Alexa Chung Wants to Bring Uggs Back, 2002 Style". Interview with Nikki Ogunnaike, www.elle.com. October 7, 2016.

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• I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."

  Harry Hay

  People, Safe, Walking Alone

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they're skilled comedians.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In most of our lives, we are accustomed to aiming at mastery and control and dominion- - over nature, over our lives, over our jobs, over our careers, over the goods that we buy.

  Michael Sandel

  Jobs, Careers, Mastery

  Source: www.pbs.org

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