"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

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"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."

Mark Twain, American Author

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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."

William James, American Philosopher

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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?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician

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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."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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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?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

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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."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair."

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"Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again."

Democracy

"When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see."

People

"They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit."

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"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."

People

"People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories."

People

"A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself."

Man

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."

Acceptance

"The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this."

Creativity

"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

Experience