"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."

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"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."

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"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."

Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian Writer

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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."

Edward Gibbon, English Historian

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"I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit."

Dick Van Dyke, American Actor

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David James Elliott, Canadian Actor

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper."

Eric Taylor, American Musician

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort."

Christopher Morley, American Author

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"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy."

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