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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

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A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics." ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

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We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed. ↗

— David Suzuki

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There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage. ↗

— Joel Barlow

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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

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