Accustomed Quotes - Page 22

• Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.

  Nathan McCall

  White, People, Justice

  Nathan McCall (2011). “Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America”, p.352, Vintage

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• The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Moving, People, Wife

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• We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

  Julia Cameron

  Dream, Thinking, God's Will

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Mar 04, 2015

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• People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  People, Criticism, Mystery

  Guillaume Apollinaire, Peter F. Read (2004). “The Cubist Painters”, p.6, Univ of California Press

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• We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Believe, Ambition

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• The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality!

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Inspirational, War, Struggle

  Letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.

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