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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
"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?"
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
"The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind."
"In silence, an act is an act is an act. Verbalized and discussed, it becomes an ethical problem ..."
"The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summer dances, if the drums could have spoken; like the men singing the Corn Song, beautiful, beautiful, so that you cried."
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
"He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul."
"The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it."
"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
"Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled."
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