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• In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Believe, Book, Men

  "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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• If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

  Cennino Cennini

  Flower, Men, Hands

  "Il libro dell' arte".

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• In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave.

  Stefan Zweig

  Unhappy, Vienna, Brutality

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• The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat on a lone boulder in the midst of the curlews. By now, they had grown accustomed to me. This too, I found encouraging-that in the face of stressful intrusions, we can eventually settle in. One begins to almost trust the intruder as a presence that demands greater intent toward life. On a day like today when the air is dry and smells of salt, I have found my open space, my solitude, and sky. And I have found the birds who require it.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Smell, Space, Air

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• There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Garden, Sight, Venice

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• DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Children, Years, Mistress

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1862). “The Deeper Wrong, Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.44

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• Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

  Eric Gill

  Practice, Design, Typography

  Eric Gill (2016). “An Essay on Typography”, p.14, Laurus

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• The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed veal or lamb or fried chicken or pork chop or hot dog.

  Matthew Scully

  Dog, Vegetarianism, Evil

  Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.138, Souvenir Press

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• Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

  Pope Francis

  Waste, Stealing, Hungry

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• Survivors have a difficult time expressing their feelings. They are more accustomed to minimizing their pain and hiding how they really feel, both from themselves and others. They often become frightened whenever they feel anything intensely, be it anger, pain, fear, or even love and joy. They fear their emotions will consume them or make them crazy.

  Beverly Engel

  Pain, Crazy, Joy

  Beverly Engel (1990). “The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse”, Ivy Books

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• I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  P. D. Ouspensky (2012). “A New Model of the Universe”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  History, Movement, Firsts

  Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.84, Routledge

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• We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Ideas, Divine, Should

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• And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Work, Writing, Order

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• I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Morning, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.70, 谷月社

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• Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: "Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal," had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart, Men, Dying

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition”, p.70, Lulu.com

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• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Philosophical, Reading

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• When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Names, Feet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to their intellectual sloth for their "principles," to their rhetorical cleverness for their "conscience," and to their regimented conformism for their "philosophy."

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Intellectual, Sloth

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• In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Garden, Done, Littles

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  It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes, in order to be received.

  David Hume

  Men, Order, Liberty

  David Hume, Stuart D. Warner, Donald W. Livingston (1994). “Hume: Political Writings”, p.253, Hackett Publishing

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• He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer at the terrible judgment-seat of Christ. It is for this purpose that the mild tribunal of penitence was here initiated, in order that we, being cleansed and amended through penitence here below, may give an answer without shame at the terrible judgment-seat of Christ.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Order, Giving

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• When you see your body wasted away through sickness, do not murmur against God, but say: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord' (Job 1:21). You are accustomed to look upon your body as upon your own inalienable property, but that is quite wrong, because your body is God's edifice.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Jobs, Blessed

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• Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can never be old or new. It never 'was' or 'will be.' It just 'is.' It always 'is.' Truth never grows old, and if you believe in it and try to live by it, you will always be, in some ways - the only ways that matter - the youngest, freshest, most energetic rebel on the block.

  Matt Walsh

  Block, Believe, Trying

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• Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Love, Inspiring, Flower

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