Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Votes: 3
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you. Votes: 3
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Votes: 2
I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information. Votes: 2
Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University. Votes: 2
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. Votes: 2
With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves. Votes: 2
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. Votes: 0
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. Votes: 0
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. Votes: 0
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. Votes: 0
The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer. Votes: 0
Do something you fear, NOT to conquer the fear, NOT to accomplish a task, but to familiarize yourself with the processes with which fear protects itself, to demystify it. Votes: 0
We can have our own choices in sex partners, but you cannot avoid birth and death. It's the content of all religion and art. We familiarize them and if we're more honest, we'd be far more relaxed about them.
I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.
The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.