#accustomed

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

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Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

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We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it. ↗

— Greg Ginn

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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

#accustomed #better #both #doing #entrepreneur

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. ↗

— Lorna Luft

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It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

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We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#arrested #being #constantly #grown #injustice

Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

#bear #become #carved #dim #eyes

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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