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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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
Patrick Warburton 
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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
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Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
Herb Ritts
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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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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
Herman Wouk
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One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.
Roy H. Williams
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