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• I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Ideas, Childhood, Feelings

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• People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

  Lauren Beukes

  People, Mind, Want

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• There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.

  Marcel Proust

  Attitude, Night, Tolerance

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• But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks.

  Anna Quindlen

  Ignorance, Perception, Age

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• It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

  Mark Lawrence

  Eye, Castles, Pay

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• What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Disease, Situation

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• Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  People, Political, Als

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.245

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• All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Faces, Gone, Joyful

  "The Old Familiar Faces" l. 1 (1798)

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• A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Giving, Expectations, Labels

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

  Laurie Notaro

  Running, Space, Towns

  Laurie Notaro (2007). “There's a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell: A Novel of Sewer Pipes, Pageant Queens, and Big Trouble”, p.18, Villard

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• The sweetness of life lies in dispensing with formalities.

  Muhammad Ali

  Lying, Sweetness Of Life, Formality

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• Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

  Robertson Davies

  Class, People, Mind

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

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• I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

  Gertrude Stein

  Doe, Contempt

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• The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Ears, Likes

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• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  Andy Rooney

  Comfort, Familiar, Familiar Things

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• Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Horse, Laughter, Fun

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Jobs, Office

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Everyday Objects, Everyday

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• A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.

  Jane Addams

  Cities, Littles, Poor

  Jane Addams, Charlene Haddock Seigfried (2002). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.13, University of Illinois Press

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• A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Men, Earth

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.346, Modern Library

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• I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

  Sara Zarr

  Writing, Example, Littles

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

  Dean Ornish

  Past, Ties, People

  "Can Online Communities Be Healing?" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2013.

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• With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Family, Baby, Sweet

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they made to her Jesus... How happy is the loving soul when it has found Jesus with Mary, His Mother! They who know the Tabernacle where He dwells, they who receive Him into their souls, know that His conversation is full of divine sweetness, His consolation ravishing, His peace superabundant, and the familiarity of His love and His Heart ineffable

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Mother, Jesus, Heart

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