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• The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

  Toni Morrison

  Self, Tests, Strange

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 20, 2010

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• I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.

  Elon Musk

  Hate, Writing, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Real, People, Random Things

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• We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Auctions, Phases

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• Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

  John Henry Newman

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.31, Ignatius Press

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• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

  Edward Norton

  Scripts, Knockoffs, Genre

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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

  Men, Medicine, Important

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.61, Ravenio Books

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• Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Data, Historical, Income

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business.

  Steven Pinker

  Swiftness, Agility, Shrewdness

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• A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

  Max Planck

  Death, Truth, Growing Up

  Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)

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• As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

  Martha Plimpton

  Poverty, Actresses

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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

  Thinking, People, Together

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• The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

  Ernest Renan

  Life, Education, Teaching

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• Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

  Christina Ricci

  Night, Different, Albums

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• My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

  Sally Ride

  Jobs, Parent, Done

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• I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Holiday, Suspense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

  Eli Roth

  Needs, Actors, Tvs

  "Scream Kings: Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Logan Hill, nymag.com. January 9, 2006.

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• The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Biblical, America, Should Have

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Doe, Knows

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• Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.143

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• Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beauty, Poetry, World

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions

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• All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

  Jane Smiley

  Sports, Art, Horse

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• Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

  Jane Smiley

  Hard Work, Thinking, Alzheimer's

  "With the benefit of foresight..." by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2002.

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• I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Joy, Division

  "Timeless tunesmith". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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