#familiar

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#business world #capital #daunting #entrepreneurs #especially

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#indiscriminate #motivated #new #religiously #terrorism

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#conceptual #course #especially #familiarize #good

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#city #end #england #feels #going

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. ↗

— Debbie Reynolds

#comes #even #familiarity #get #i

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#common #common law #could #course #discipline

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity. ↗

— Campbell Scott

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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#dead #especially #europeans #experienced #familiar