#familiar

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. ↗

— Joe Orton

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I'm not familiar with the metric system. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

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Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he’d just turned their Doppler radar upside down. Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch) ↗

— Sapphire Phelan

#ebook #paranormal #romantic #sapphire-phelan #urban-fantasy

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#been #better #difficulty #effect #experience

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. ↗

— Cyril Falls

#contrary #ensure #leadership #necessary #particularly

Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news. ↗

— David Chalmers

#big #big news #broader #consciousness #detailed

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there. ↗

— Ed Helms

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