#accustomed

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 #become #blood #cannot #curious

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

#affluence #back #countries #developed #developed countries

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed. ↗

— David Suzuki

#accustomed #argue #become #build #coal

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#become #govern #governing #socialism #soon

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age. ↗

— Chris Bell

#age #bells #bells and whistles #day #few

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

#convince #country #discomfort #especially #get

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics." ↗

— Helen Rowland

#become #begin #characteristics #charming #cherish

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

— Joel Barlow

#advantages #arms #being #disadvantage #many

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

— Dorothy Allison

#am #background #class #class background #contempt

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#attribute #cause #come #controversies #majority