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• Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Tired, Would Be, Stories

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• There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

  George Santayana

  Humor, Growth, Mind

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• Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

  Charlotte Mason

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

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• It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Team, People

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in tradition yet made to feel new and modern with unexpected or stylized scale, finishes and detailing. This contemporary take on tradition creates a look that's at once current yet timeless, fresh yet familiar…the essence of both beautiful design and a beautifully designed home.

  Candice Olson

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Home

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• If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating cliches familiar to it. But artists don't address themselves to audiences; they create audiences. The artist talks to himself out loud. If what he has to say is significant, others hear & are affected.

  Edmund Snow Carpenter

  Artist, Addresses, Cliche

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• The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.

  Joseph McCabe

  School, Civilization, Long

  "The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1914.

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• I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve I wrote 'bankrupt' at the foot. And it was on Christmas morning 1895, after I had celebrated three Masses, while the bells of the parish church were ringing out the Christmas message of peace, that, with great pain, I found myself far out from the familiar land--homeless, aimlessly drifting. But the bells were right after all; from that hour on I have been wholly free from the nightmare of doubt that had lain on me for ten years.

  Joseph McCabe

  Morning, Pain, Feet

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• To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people.

  Dan Eldon

  Children, Team, Eye

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• Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.

  Adam Braun

  People, Leaving, Who We Are

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• Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.

  George Parsons Lathrop

  Character, Order, Unseen

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• A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

  William Safire

  Mind, Able, Companion

  "Dictionaurus" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 10, 2009.

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• Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Home, Men, Land

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1429, eBookIt.com

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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

  Sports, New York, Nice

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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

  Running, New Day, Use

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• I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

  Ednita Nazario

  Play, Broadway

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• At the time I wasn’t really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that ’cause they regular people just like everybody else.

  Obie Trice

  People, Causes

  "Obie Trice: No Gimmicks". Interview with Jigsaw Features, allhiphop.com. April 22, 2003.

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• It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

  Chili Davis

  Knows

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• Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Attitude, Thinking, Space

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

  Patricia Ireland

  Men, Law, Discipline

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• Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.

  Richard Louv

  Character, Eight, Average

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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

  Opinion, Economy, Changed

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• Seems like Ive been here before.
  Seems so familiar.
  Seems like Im slipping
  into a dream within a dream.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Dream, Slipping, Seems

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• I had longed to come home but now that I was there, it wasn't much fun. Home wasn't the same if I couldn't sleep in my own bedroom or use the bathroom by myself. I felt like a stranger in those familiar rooms.

  Peg Kehret

  Fun, Sleep, Home

  Peg Kehret (2013). “Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• Love hath so long possessed me for his own
  And made his lordship so familiar.

  Dante Alighieri

  Long, Made, Lordship

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The New Life”, p.56, Dante Alighieri

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