Familiarity Quotes - Page 13

• There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.

  Anne Bernays

  Strong, Writing, Wind

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• Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Funny, Humorous, Hair

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Familiarity can blind too.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Blind

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• Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

  John Stuart Mill

  Familiar, Materials

  John Stuart Mill (2007). “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.

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