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Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds blindness


Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

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Familiarity used to breed contempt ..... now it just breeds
CHRISTOPHER MOLINEUX In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
PAUL LAZARSFELD Familiarity breeds contempt.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Familiarity breeds contempt.
AESOP Familiarity breed contempt.
AESOP Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
FLORENCE KING It is dependency, not familiarity, that breeds contempt.
MARTY RUBIN Familiarity seems to breed contempt
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration
WILLIAM HAZLITT Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
MARK TWAIN Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.
MARK TWAIN Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
MARK TWAIN Too much familiarity breeds contempt.
VIKRANT PARSAI Familiarity breeds contempt - and children
MARK TWAIN Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
AMANDA CRAIG Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
MARK TWAIN Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
ROY HATTERSLEY Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
WILLIAM HAZLITT My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
CHAKA KHAN Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
APULEIUS Familiarity breeds contempt. [Lat., Nimia familiaritas parit contemptum.]
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
CHARLES DE GAULLE Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
MARTIN FREEMAN Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it ...
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JASON ZEBEHAZY Familiarity breeds content
ANNA QUINDLEN Familiarity breeds attempt.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE Familiarity breeds attempt
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE Familiarity breeds complacency.
RICK WARREN Familiarity breeds liking.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Familiarity tends to breed complacency.
CHRISTOPHER JONES In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
WILLIAM BERNBACH Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is becau...
MARK TWAIN I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
TIMOTHY WHITE If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, whe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, whe...
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MICHAEL STIPE ...their hearts had still not been hardened with the inevitable cynicism that familiarity and experi...
MOXIE MEZCAL ...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more...
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JON CROSBY Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.
NICHOLAS SPARKS If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, whe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.
JOCELYN MURRAY Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
OUIDA Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk witho...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.
ANTOINE RIVAROL When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
JOSEPH ADDISON Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds
ANTOINE RIVAROL Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
HONORE DE BALZAC Familiarity causes diminishing of potentials.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a matter of familiarity. Working together, catchers get to know what pitchers like to throw in ...
BRYAN PRICE There's no question that since (the Bears) have grown up with (the Trojans), ... There's a lot of fa...
JEFF TEDFORD This year has been far less turnover and it's been smoother. More familiarity. ... Last year we put ...
IAIN BYRNE One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can ...
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness
MARIE LOUISE DE LA RAMEE unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
GEORGE SAND Admiration and familiarity are strangers
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JONATHAN CHEN With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic wo...
WYNDHAM LEWIS There is a familiarity, in terms of schemes and philosophy,
BRIAN KELLY With Glenn and me, it gives the people of Tucson some familiarity in terms of names and faces.
BRANDON NASH We believe consumers' growing familiarity and confidence with online shopping, coupled with a dramat...
DAN HESS It definitely helps to have a familiarity with their system and their personnel. I don't think Gregg...
GRANT WEAVER In popular culture, familiarity or cuddliness is important.
GARY R. EDGERTON People are stampeding back into the good old names that we all recognize. Familiarity makes them eas...
MARK SCHULTZ There's a familiarity there. Taming of the Shrew is one of the top three Shakespearean plays in term...
JEFF HYSLOP It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or...
BRIAN FRANCIS advertising produces familiarity which produces sales
PAUL COOKSON Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as m...
PAUL BLOOM Never blame the devil for marriage failures,but rather blame over familiarity & boredom.
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KATE BERNHEIMER It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated ...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Cause of Adultery; People practice & promote adultery not because they are evil minded,but because o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.
JENNIFER E. SMITH Many students have no familiarity with what engineers do, the types of jobs they hold, or the contri...
BETH MCGRATH I think (familiarity) helped with all three of us on the committee. We all know his philosophy and d...
LINDA JOLLY The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and fami...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN You hope to have capable backups, but the comfort level or familiarity of the team with each other i...
LORI KERANS Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.
TRUTH DEVOUR People have a familiarity with the scenes and the artist.
RYAN GROVER Through our maps, we willingly become a part of their boundaries. If our home is included, we feel p...
DEBBIE LEE WESSELMANN The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.
ERIN MORGENSTERN Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.
CARAGH M. O'BRIEN When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ...I was confusing familiarity with happiness. Because that was there even when love wasn't...
EMMA CLINE The dark spot in the beautiful marriage banner is over familiarity.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
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