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This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case. (Quote by - Albert Claude)

How wondrous familiar is a fool! (Quote by - Herman Melville)

Familiarity breeds attempt. (Quote by - Jane Sherwood Ace)

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts. (Quote by - Comtesse de Genlis)

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy. (Quote by - William Bernbach)

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. (Quote by - Alex North)

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity. (Quote by - Campbell Scott)

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. (Quote by - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld)

Familiarity breeds contempt; and children. (Quote by - Samuel Clemens)

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

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. (Quote by - Hermann Ebbinghaus)

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. (Quote by - Cervantes)

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