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• Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

  Gene Wolfe

  Science, Mind, Facts

  Gene Wolfe (1997). “The Island of Dr. Death and Other Stories and Other Stories”, p.351, Macmillan

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• For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Science, Animal

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• Nature is accustomed to hide itself.

  Heraclitus

  Nature, Science, Natural

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• Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Education, Men, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Men, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.218, 谷月社

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• A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.

  Johannes Kepler

  Time, Dirty, Feet

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• The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Fall

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• The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to revenge in the government (which they cannot have while it is in their own hands) there are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

  Joel Barlow

  Revenge, Gun, Government

  Joel Barlow (1796). “The Political Writings of Joel Barlow ... A New Edition Corrected”, p.24

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• Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

  Arthur Twining Hadley

  Men, Debt, Pay

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• No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Words Of Wisdom, Doubt, Body

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• My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Sports, Art, Strong

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• Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Government, Liberty, Enjoy

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.385, Library of Alexandria

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• Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Healthy Habits, Comfort

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• When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Self, Grace, Defense

  Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.77, Moody Publishers

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• I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Country, People, Voting

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• Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

  Gay Hendricks

  Inspirational, Pain, Struggle

  Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Horse, Memories, Real

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.194, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Public Speaking, Futility, Knows

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Fall, Sleep

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.491

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• What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

  James J. Gibson

  Believe, Mean, Separation

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• It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service.

  Neil Cavuto

  Literature, Good Service, Bad Service

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• I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati. From Bantam League, to middle school, high school and at Auburn, I was always on winning teams. I just want to win again.

  Takeo Spikes

  Dream, Team, School

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• But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Perfection, Littles, Bears

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• You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

  Emily Blunt

  Trying, Puppets, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Notebook, Beach, Garden

  Myth in Primitive Psychology ch. 5 (1926)

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