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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

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People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. ↗

— Robert Quine

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The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

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I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity. ↗

— Debbie Reynolds

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I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

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I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him. ↗

— Bryan Robson

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Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't. ↗

— George A. Romero

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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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