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• There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Life, Way

  "Anna Karenina".

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• How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving, Tests, Serious

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “The Essential Goethe”, p.250, Princeton University Press

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• To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.202, Modern Library

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• Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

  Helen Fielding

  Parent, Freak, Single Women

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Thinking, Definitions

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• ...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

  Christina Dodd

  Pain, Loneliness, Chill

  Christina Dodd (2009). “A Well Pleasured Lady: Well Pleasured #1”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in bewilderment and felt my cheeks, my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was, I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wanted to be worthy of the mirror bearer.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life, Hate, Passion

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• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Mom, Hard Times, Entrepreneur

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• I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

  Cameron Diaz

  Birthday, Girl, Growing Up

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• Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

  Edmund Hillary

  Honor, Firsts, Becoming

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• Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Toilers of the Sea”, p.82, Wildside Press LLC

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• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Suffering, Unalienable Rights

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

  Elia Kazan

  Practice, Democracy, Communist

  "A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and 'Naming Names'" by Elia Kazan, www.capitalismmagazine.com. April 19, 1999.

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• I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Couple, Play

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• Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Eugenics, Socialism, Communism

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.361, Courier Corporation

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• I'm so accustomed to being alone.

  Leighton Meester

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• We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Im Sorry, Being Yourself, Work

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• A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

  Helen Rowland

  Men, Literature, Littles

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.64, Lulu.com

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• Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

  Edward Thorndike

  Nature, Thinking, Ideas

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• The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

  Ken Venturi

  Golf, Two, Brain

  "The Masters 2011 - the final day, as it happened" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2011.

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• My legs have become accustomed to the treadmill. And in L.A., running on the street is asking for a distracted texting driver to knock you over.

  Michael Weatherly

  Running, Asking, Legs

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• In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Education, Giving, Democracy

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• As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

  Leonard Cohen

  Eye, Sight, Wonder

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.32, Emblem Editions

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• He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.

  Paulo Coelho

  Alchemist, Wanted, Alchemist Book

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

  Joel Osteen

  Accepting, Grows

  Joel Osteen (2005). “Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now: 90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential”, p.74, Hachette UK

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