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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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• You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ocean, Thinking, Mind

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• Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the view of the city. I have created a space which virtually erases the boundaries between inside and outside – where people become a little uncertain as to whether they have stepped into a work or into a part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to moving.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Moving, Thinking, Museums

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• One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

  Dorothy Allison

  Class, Backgrounds, Contempt

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

  Moshe Sharett

  Army, Thinking, Blood

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• Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Kings, Winter

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews and Posthumous Assessments, Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

  Joel Barlow

  Gun, Use, Arms

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

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• To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing

  Michael Bolton

  Voice, Wonder

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• I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Men, Coins, Pay

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• Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Animal, Needs, Want

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• Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Bed, Easier

  Berthold Auerbach (1896*). “On the Heights”

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• I watched UCLA football for many, many years. I've grown accustomed to the Pac-10 style.

  Brian Bosworth

  Football, Ucla, Years

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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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• On both sides of the line, we are so accustomed to an undefended boundary three thousand miles long that we are inclined perhaps to minimize its vast importance, not only to our own continuing relations but also to the example which it sets to the other nations of the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Long, Presidential, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.277, Best Books on

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• It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Long, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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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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• 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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• Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Men, Numbers, Roaring

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

  Paul Bowles

  Experience, Different, Attention

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