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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

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It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also. ↗

— Chili Davis

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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ↗

— George Gissing

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There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. ↗

— Martin Freeman

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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

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It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with. ↗

— Joe Lando

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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was. ↗

— Eric Massa

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