"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."

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"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."

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"And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit."

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"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

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Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Laws are never as effective as habits."

"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

"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."

"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

"And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit."

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

"In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds."

"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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"I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside."