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Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before that, he was on the 1984 U.S. Olympic swimming team. No medals. He was accustomed to winning at everything, but no medals in 1984.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: Accustomed Before Dad Enough Everything Focus Fund Game He Hedge Made Manager Medals Millions Olympic Retire Retired Swimming Team Who Winning

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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.

~E. Joseph Cossman

Topics: Accustomed Ambitious Any Become Defeat Destroys Imaginative Longer Meant Men Mental More More People Nerve Other Out Own People Physical Pull Rut Salary Sickness Strike Sure Than You Your

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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

~Eddie Bernice Johnson

Topics: Accustomed Convince Country Discomfort Get Hard History Important Minorities Most Older Older People Parts People Some Them Try Voting

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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

~Edmund Hillary

Topics: Accustomed Although Amazing Become Becoming Considerable First Honor How Quickly Sir Slightly Uncomfortable You

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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

~Edmund S. Muskie

Topics: Accustomed Anger Become Campaigns Exaggeration Heat Little Our Political Political Process Process Served Us Well Whole

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The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Accustomed America Become Bombs Communities Every Explode Hiroshima Human Latin Latin America Making Over Poverty Secret Sound Suffering Teeth Three Without Year

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I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed to going.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Accustomed Always American Because Going Help Helps Just Need People Places Poetry Say Some Takes Think Us I Think

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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Ability Accustomed Beings Controlling Events Having Human Human Beings Ideas Intellect Isolated Learn Learning Nature Power Rare Really Synonymous Think

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I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed.

~Edward Zwick

Topics: Accustomed Continue Grown Had List Particular Passivity Powerful Say Seemed Up Victimization Which Would

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The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

~Elia Kazan

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