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Familiar Quotes - Page 2

Familiarity breeds consent.

"In Her Day". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1976.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXIII, section 3,

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

"His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove”, Vintage

One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.3, Rowman Altamira

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.

"Richard Dawkins and God". "Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett on ABC Radio National, www.abc.net.au. November 26, 2006.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

John Stuart Mill (2007). “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy”, p.124, Cosimo, Inc.