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The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ↗

— Rene Descartes

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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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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

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We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. ↗

— Peter Singer

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

— Joel Barlow

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I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

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

— Dorothy Allison

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But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

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We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

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