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No, he doesn't because I kind of know where he’s coming from. I’m not unfamiliar with his opinions. So it doesn’t really bother me because I know what the truth is. – Reince Priebus	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
No veteran in crisis should ever have to wait for service or be transferred without a positive handoff, told to call another organization, or -- worst of all -- have their call terminated without receiving any assistance, the larger issue is that this situation shows that the VA employees in charge of running the crisis line were asleep at the switch -- utterly unfamiliar with the day-to-day operations of the program. – Jeff Miller	Found on CNN 8 years ago
For many consumers, a trip to the automotive parts store can be a confusing foray into unfamiliar territory, when retailers are not transparent and accurate in their pricing, consumers suffer. – Acting Attorney General John Hoffman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I used to hang up because the numbers were unfamiliar. What if it was the SBU (Ukrainian security service) making threats? I have no contact with anyone. How would I know it was Sasha? – Zinaida Alexandrova	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Exposure to new and different environments remind us of how big, diverse, and interesting the world is, it expands my ability to be creative and curious and gets my endorphins going. It's also humbling to be new and unfamiliar with different territories. – Claudia Chan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
For parents of children who are born premature or with other medical complications, the joy of a new baby is tempered with worry, the medicalized environment in which the baby is placed in the days and weeks following delivery is unfamiliar and at times frightening for parents. – Mark Linden	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's stunning that the governor of Iowa is so unfamiliar with pig farming that he doesn't know the difference between gestation crates and farrowing crates, this bill applied only to gestation crates, meaning there are no piglets to be kept separate from their mothers, since they're all in utero. – Paul Shapiro	Found on CNN 9 years ago
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake. – June Jordan	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. – Paul Fix	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. – Cynthia Ozick	added by anonymous 14 years ago

No, he doesn't because I kind of know where he’s coming from. I’m not unfamiliar with his opinions. So it doesn’t really bother me because I know what the truth is.

– Reince Priebus

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

No veteran in crisis should ever have to wait for service or be transferred without a positive handoff, told to call another organization, or -- worst of all -- have their call terminated without receiving any assistance, the larger issue is that this situation shows that the VA employees in charge of running the crisis line were asleep at the switch -- utterly unfamiliar with the day-to-day operations of the program.

– Jeff Miller

Found on CNN
8 years ago

For many consumers, a trip to the automotive parts store can be a confusing foray into unfamiliar territory, when retailers are not transparent and accurate in their pricing, consumers suffer.

– Acting Attorney General John Hoffman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I used to hang up because the numbers were unfamiliar. What if it was the SBU (Ukrainian security service) making threats? I have no contact with anyone. How would I know it was Sasha?

– Zinaida Alexandrova

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Exposure to new and different environments remind us of how big, diverse, and interesting the world is, it expands my ability to be creative and curious and gets my endorphins going. It's also humbling to be new and unfamiliar with different territories.

– Claudia Chan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

For parents of children who are born premature or with other medical complications, the joy of a new baby is tempered with worry, the medicalized environment in which the baby is placed in the days and weeks following delivery is unfamiliar and at times frightening for parents.

– Mark Linden

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's stunning that the governor of Iowa is so unfamiliar with pig farming that he doesn't know the difference between gestation crates and farrowing crates, this bill applied only to gestation crates, meaning there are no piglets to be kept separate from their mothers, since they're all in utero.

– Paul Shapiro

Found on CNN
9 years ago

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

– June Jordan

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

– Thomas Mann

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

– Paul Fix

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

– Cynthia Ozick

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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