Familiarity tends to breed complacency.


Christopher Jones

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Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
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Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
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Familiarity breeds attempt.
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Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.
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Familiarity breeds attempt
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Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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Familiarity breeds liking.
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Complacency is our worst enemy.
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Comfort yields complacency. Break free.
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Complacency is the enemy of progress.
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Poor motivation and alertness cause complacency
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I think complacency is what you allow it to be.
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers
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Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.
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Familiarity breeds contempt and children.
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Those that breed gratitude also breed abundance,but ingratitude is the mother of abundant lack.
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My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
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Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.
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advertising produces familiarity which produces sales
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This is the complacency I have run into.
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No, but it's very...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one ...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
We need to distinguish between nostalgia and the reassuring memory of happy times, which serves to l...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
I sometimes think
His critical judgement is so exquisite
It leaves us nothing to admire except...
CHRISTOPHER FRY
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the soci...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere. You always know what a p...
CHRISTOPHER ORLET
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy...
CHRISTOPHER RICKS
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH
I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I lo...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON