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  • Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

    Assuming   Stranger   Odd  
    Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.55, Penguin
  • Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.

    Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.20, Hachette UK
  • Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory.

  • Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.

    Education   Peace   Truth  
  • Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

    Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber
  • Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

    Ignorance   Use   Wonder  
    John Locke (1706). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding: In Four Books”, p.379
  • I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20 or 100. One of the things a painting does is to make the room look better. It improves the wall that it's on. Which is much harder than it looks. And that's a good thing. And if one engages with a painting on that level, that's fine, that's great. After some time, familiarity, the other things that a painting does, the other layers, they just start to make themselves felt.

    Art   Wall   Mean  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

    Eye   Castles   Pay  
  • Vonnegut's earliest novels hint strongly at his familiarity with Wiener's work, The Human Use of Human Beings, especially his first novel, Player Piano (1952), which shows his concern for the social implications of automation, the replacement of human beings with machines.

    Player   Piano   Firsts  
  • Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

    "On the God of Socrates". Ch. 4,
  • There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.

  • I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

    Beautiful   Fun   Humble  
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”
  • (What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

  • Familiarity breeds content.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

  • One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons
  • Advertising produces familiarity which produces sales

  • One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple does not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

  • The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

    Life   Travel   Real  
    "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America".
  • You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

    Tv Shows   Tvs   Kind  
    Source: collider.com
  • That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

    Kissing   Hug   Hollywood  
  • The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.

    Real   Islamic   Ideas  
    Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

    Men   Idols   May  
    Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.423
  • Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

  • The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons
  • Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.

    Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.24, Hachette UK
  • There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

    Senior   Zero   Devil  
  • I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.

    Book   Thinking   World  
    "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.
  • My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited. I would say that during the course of the game, I honestly never - it probably has happened on an incomplete pass or something - but I've never touched a game ball. It's not something I have any familiarity with on that.

    Source: hereandnow.wbur.org
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