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"For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."
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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
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"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."
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"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"
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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
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"Laws are never as effective as habits."
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"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."
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"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"
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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."
People
"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."
News
"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."
Society
"I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading."
Reading
"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."
Media
"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."
Reading
"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."
Time
"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."
Friendship
"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."
Nation
"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."
Family
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