Rene Magritte
Surrealist Artist
"Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange."
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Familiar
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Benjamin Disraeli
Politician, Author
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few."
Confucius
Philosopher
"We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women."
Joseph Joubert
Essayist, Moralist
"The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity."
Prince Charles
Royalty
"Be neither too remote nor too familiar."
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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."
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"The most familiar precepts are not always the truest."
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"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."
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"Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar."
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"Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common."
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"All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere."
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"Your body will never be familiar."
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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."
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"Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm."
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"Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas."
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"Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar."
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"Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own."
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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."
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"A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar."
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"New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new."
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"We pardon familiar vices."
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"It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them."
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"Everything I am familiar with is gone."
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"If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications."
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"We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar."
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