Top Familiar Quotes
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
Eric Hoffer
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
Michael Behe
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen
The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.
Ethan A. Hitchcock
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Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual.
Davy Jones 
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When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
William H. Hunt
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Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
Brent Scowcroft
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Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
Jeffery Deaver
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At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Jessica Lange
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Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.
Richard V. Allen
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I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.
Harvey Pekar
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You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Mediterranean way of being. I've spent a lot of time there. And I've sort of translated it; I've tried to make it available to people in this country to whom it might not be familiar.
Sally Schneider
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Popular Familiar Authors
Mason CooleyAmbrose BierceH. L. MenckenGilbert K. ChestertonEric HofferAldous HuxleyHenry MillerW. Somerset MaughamKarl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelJoseph AddisonCharles BaudelaireBryant H. McGillJohn DrydenAlfred North WhiteheadHenry A. Kissinger
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