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«The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.»
Author: Karl von Clausewitz
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accustom, accustomed, demands, depend on, heavy, response, soldiers
«Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
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accustomed, armor, chunk, chunks, converse, conversing, dulling, eleven, fabled, forgetting, huge, Seven Wonders, visit
«Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.»
«Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
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accustomed, be well, coarse, diet, distributed, downhill, frugal, hermit, hermits, observed, Spartan, tends, tends to
«The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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accustomed, conventions, depend upon, frequency
«We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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accustomed, deride, derided, derides, snarl, snarling, snarls, sympathies
«The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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accustomed, incessantly, organs, ossified, ossify
«Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.»
«We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.»
«Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves»
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